Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it has now--an unlikely prospect in light of the distinct, secluded atmosphere of the present building. While cautioning that it is too early for a final decision, Stanley Hoffman appears skeptical about the new building: "We met with Pei and told him we did not want a Pentagon. If by some miracle he does come through, then we would move...
Then Truman added: "I don't like Eisenhower. I never have, but one of the last things I did as President, I got those letters from his file in the Pentagon and I destroyed them...
...distorted U.S. history to prove he had an inherent, unchallengeable constitutional power to act at home and abroad, in the interest of national security. As the cold war continued Presidents cried wolf more and more. There came a tune when President Nixon could speak of the publishing of the Pentagon papers as an all but mortal threat to the Republic...
...Ward Just's short stories are mostly bureaucrats. Not exactly masters of their own fate, they do not control the fate of others either. Rather than being captains of nations, wielding awesome power, Just's protagonists are State Department officials, CIA analysts, second-tier Congressmen, Pentagon warriors and journalists. They are not the stuff of political soap opera...
...other stories in the collection particularly stand out. "Prime Evening Time" deals with a Pentagon staff aide, once a war hero, and his appearance on television. Expected by his superiors to be a good p.r. man and expected by the television crew to be a living stereotype, the career soldier becomes an enigmatic distant figure, while ambiguous suggestions about his marriage fail to shake his privacy...