Word: stimson
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...Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, said, "I regret the nomination as falling below the standards that seem to me generally appropriate to the Supreme Court of the United States and especially important to maintain at the present time...
...austere CIA headquarters, a bas-relief plaque with Allen Dulles' likeness bears the inscription: "His Monument Is Around Us." It has been 40 years since Secretary of State Henry Stimson disbanded the only U.S. code-breaking operation then in existence with the scornful remark, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." Allen Dulles was a gentleman, but he also had a bent for reading other people's mail that was ingenious and invaluable...
...notes John Jay McCloy, who has been called the board chairman of the U.S. Wasp Establishment. "Now, to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth often means you have a distinct advantage. This would seem to indicate that the tradition of the Adamses, Elihu Root and Henry Stimson is perhaps even greater today...
...F.D.R. ever squirmed, he never showed it. His small contribution to this massive collection is made up mostly of delighted thanks for Frankfurter's fawning and requests for his help: "Tell me what to write-dictate right now the note that you think I ought to send [Stimson...
L.B.J. & F.D.R. Or, with an election year approaching, L.B.J. might be inclined to emulate F.D.R., who picked a Republican, Henry Stimson, to head the war effort before the bitterly contested 1940 election campaign. Indeed, the war seems the major catalyst bearing on Johnson's decision-and raises the question whether Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who after seven years in so demanding a post must be as tired as McNamara, might not also be leaving soon...