Word: q
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Q. Mr. President, is it true that you once characterized Richard Nixon's investigation into the Alger Hiss case as a red herring...
...wholehearted surrender; scarcely a journal-left, right, highbrow or lowbrow-held out. "Gentle, soothing and intriguing," breathed the Manchester Guardian. The Daily Express chuckled at the press-conference repartee: "Q. 'What specific Beethoven symphonies interest you?' A. 'I have a terrible time with numbers. I know it when I hear...
...Q.: Mr. Wilson, Prime Minister Eden has announced that the British are going to cut their defense spending by a couple of billion dollars . . . I was wondering just what effect this has on our defense plan...
...Q.: Yours are to stave off more money, aren't they...
After security agents ran a check on him to give him "Q" clearance-enabling him to share the Government's most highly classified secrets-Donovan went to work. He was installed in the White House East Executive Wing, where he studied documents and took exhaustive notes for almost two months. Then he began interviewing some 50 key Administration officials, all of whom had been instructed to speak freely. In all his research he made no approach to two possible sources: Jim Hagerty, whom he saw only twice casually in groups, and President Eisenhower himself...