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...clock on the morning of May 1, 1960, my telephone rang. I picked up the receiver, and the voice on the other end said, "Minister of Defense Marshal Rodion Malinovsky reporting." He went on to tell me that an American U-2 reconnaissance plane had crossed the border of Afghanistan into Soviet airspace and was flying toward Sverdlovsk. I replied that it was up to him to shoot down the plane by whatever means he could. Malinovsky said he'd already given the order, adding "If our antiaircraft units can just keep their eyes open and stop yawning long...
During that period, much of the Kremlin's information about the Chinese came from Kao Rang, who was then the representative of the Chinese Politburo and the strongman in Manchuria. To win Mao's trust and friendship, Khrushchev says, Stalin gave Mao reports by the Soviet ambassador in Manchuria about his conversations with Kao, saying, "Here, you might be interested in these...
...available any more on the Republican banquet circuit unless the Hill got its overpass. Finally Polizzi led a Hill delegation to Washington with a check for $50,000, raised by the residents themselves, to pay for the overpass. The Hill got its bridge, and the bells of St. Ambrose rang out the good news...
...Israel, cries for revenge rang...
Presidential aides pointedly said that Nixon wanted no help from anyone in meeting his tax obligation. Bruce Herschensohn, the presidential assistant assigned to work with groups supporting Nixon, claimed that his telephone rang repeatedly all week with offers. One came from Chicago Insurance Tycoon W. Clement Stone, who contributed some $2 million to Nixon's re-election campaign. He said he would be willing to give enough money to pay the whole tax bill because "Nixon is the greatest President of the U.S. ever." Nancy Davis, of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that "as many people as possible send...