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...Administration with any sort of ecology problem," says a Humble executive, "we will be crucified." Plans call for the "best pipe ever used by the oil industry," he adds. Electronic monitoring devices and 30-ton safety locks would turn off the pipeline's pressure five minutes after a leak was spotted...
Jesus, I thought. You mean that this woman has lived 60-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...
Jesus, I thought. You mean that this woman has lived 60-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...
Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, author of To Move a Nation, asserts: "The blunt truth is that the President knows very little that you and I don't know. And even that little extra is going to leak out sooner or later -more often sooner than later...
...example, the source of one analysis is the CIA, Hilsman says, he must ask himself: "What axes is the agency grinding at.that moment? What is the agency's response likely to be if the President ignores its advice? To whom will the information then be leaked? And at what price to the President?" A President may well get conflicting advice from the CIA, the Defense Department, the State Department, his White House foreign affairs advisers -but he must make a decision. He must do so knowing that anyone he ignores may leak his pique to the press. No President...