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When Britain's King George III died in 1820, he was blind, deaf and apparently mad. His physicians, limited in their medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...
Diplomatic Protocol...
...praise on the forthcoming Apollo 11 flight, it appeared that a turning point had been reached in U.S.-Soviet space relations. Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin even accepted a NASA invitation to witness the Apollo 11 launch at Cape Kennedy-the first Russian official to do so. Under normal diplomatic protocol, his attendance might have obligated the Russians to invite an American to a launch in the Soviet Union. But early last week, the Russian embassy in Washington revealed that Dobrynin would be out of the country at the time of the Apollo shot. It was still another indication that the Soviets...
Stars and Stripes to festoon the city's lampposts must be taken out of storage at the protocol department. Rooms must be found for an estimated 600 foreign newsmen in a city that has only three first-class hotels...
Close Watch. Still, though they may not have observed protocol-or in some cases the Constitution-it is not so easy to contend that the Chief Executives were always wrong. In the summer of 1940, for instance, President Roosevelt had good reason to believe that American destroyers might prove decisive in defeating a German invasion of Britain; a British defeat would have brought the U.S. into the gravest peril. Yet Congress probably would not have approved the transaction for weeks or months, if at all. Congress is oftentimes hostage to parochial interests, while the President has the national constituency...