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Francon feels that De Gaulle's protege Georges Pompidou, could not replace De Gaulle at this time because of his lesser prestige. Only De Gaulle can "speak for France as a whole," he said.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Bill Don Moyers, the young deputy director of the Peace Corps, was lunching with Texas Democratic bigwigs at the elegant 40 Acres Club in Austin. At 12:42 a waiter summoned him to the phone. Minutes later, a somber Moyers returned to the table. 'The...
As Secretary McNamara set the tenure record last week, his shop churned out a series of announcements that suggested the massive size and shape of his operation: the Defense Department 1) announced that Lockheed Aircraft had won the hotly contested $2 billion contract for the new C-5A military transport...
The new bishop knows his diocese and its problems well. One of six children, he was born the son of a rice-mill worker in segregationist Lake Charles, La. The family spoke French at home, and although the parents never got to high school, all six children attended college; one...
The same year that Red-Ucators appeared, Alger Hiss went on trial in New York as a result of evidence gathered in an investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law School in the thirties, and while in Cambridge had been on the...