Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch...
This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...Cairo Conference (1943) promised Formosa to China; Chinese Communists could argue that Formosa, and its 6,400,000 people, belong to China. Instead of reassuring Asiatics, the sending of U.S. troops might provoke more enmity than friendliness for Western democracy; Asiatics might look upon it as a demonstration of white imperialism...
...Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said: 'I had a hell of a time getting these away from Groves.' And it was signed with the initials...
...near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he said, and the embassy would "plug in Harry Hopkins at the White House-they had a direct wire . . . Hopkins and I got to know each other very well over the phone...