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...presidential bedroom in which no President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that of the President's that the State Department has protested. Despite these negative credentials, the "library" last weekend staged a symposium on the presidency at Montauk, N.Y., that attracted some high Government officials, past and present...
Apparently aware that presidential papers would be difficult to come by and that serious students of the presidency are doing well without his institution, Hoxie now emphasizes the library's potential value to high school pupils. He has also turned to setting up a symposium to discuss aspects of the presidency. Hoxie took along Eisenhower Press Secretary James Hagerty when he went to Washington to line up speakers and guests. President Nixon's communications director, Herbert Klein, agreed to be the main speaker. Hagerty and Johnson's press secretary, George Reedy, accepted invitations to discuss "The White...
...April 21 program will feature a seven-man symposium: Dr. Barry Commner, an ecologist at Washington University; Massachusetts State Senator John J. Moakley; Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine); Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration: George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Dr. George Wiley, president of the Welfare Rights Association; and Malcolm Rifkin, a Washington city planner...
...favorite devices of intellectual journals is to collect a number of articles or essays on the same topic from a group of well known scholars, and bind them all together with a general introduction. The result is called a "symposium." and usually consists of 20 or so vague essays all saying the same thing about one general topic. The viewpoint expressed in the articles will be the accepted moderate-liberal position, with perhaps one ?? and one conservative thrown in for balance D?? the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is often guilty of this sort of thing...
Burns' talk was part of the agenda that concluded a two-day symposium on the arm race and the unilateral proliferation of nuclear weapons. The symposium, sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group of Boston-area scientists, is designed to disseminate information to the public concerning the danger of nuclear arms buildup...