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Compared with the NSA, the CIA is as open as a New Hampshire town meeting. The NSA welcomes its confusion with NASA and the National Security Council. It is the one federal agency that claims-and gets-total exemption from the Freedom of Information Act. When Harry Truman started the NSA under the Defense Department's authority in 1952, only a handful of people even knew of his order...
Clark Clifford, when he was Truman's aide, was always impressed by how hard Truman worked, how he immersed himself in the detail of legislation and administration. Truman knew how his Government worked or did not work, not unlike the days when he managed Jackson County...
...midst of the opening credits, Blood delivers a hilarious off-color limerick about a man named Lodge and the back seat of a Dodge. At one point in the film, Blood, who is tutoring Vic in American history, asks him to recite the list of American presidents, from Truman on. "Eisenhower, Truman," Vic starts and corrects himself, "Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, (pause), Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...." Otherwise, much of the humor is badly paced...
After approval of the technicians' resolution last week, Israeli leaders hailed the accord as a significant treaty binding the U.S. and Israel together to a degree that Presidents since Harry Truman's time have resisted. They were unhappy that Kissinger, in defending his diplomatic handiwork to Congress, appeared to take a less exuberant view...
Died. Herbert W. Christen berry, 77, U.S. district judge in New Orleans; of an apparent heart attack; in Kentwood, La. Christenberry, who had been U.S. Attorney in his native New Orleans for five years, was appointed to the bench in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. In the years since then, he made a number of pioneering rulings in civil rights cases, including a 1966 order forcing school integration in Plaquemines Parish, La., one of the longest Deep South holdouts against federal desegregation laws...