Word: macveagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weird night sessions at Camp David, the President discloses his grand design to his choice for running mate in the next election, Hero Jim MacVeagh, the junior Senator from Iowa. MacVeagh realizes the President is mad. Trouble is, in the light of day the President seems as normal as the next man, and thereby hangs MacVeagh's dilemma-and Knebel's tale. How to convince anybody else in official Washington of so horrendous a truth? As a Pentagon general remarks: "Nobody -but nobody-in this country can tell a President of the United States that his mind...
...Class of 1913 discovered, this duty lay in many fields. In one direction went the public figures: A.A. Berle Jr., Kennedy's former Latin American adviser; George H. Earle III, Governor of Pennsylvania; Lincoln MacVeagh; Ambassador to Spain, Portugal, and Greece; and General Daniel Needham, a Boston civic leader. But in another went the scientists and humanists; Dr. Howard Root, the nation's leading authority on diabetes, Gerald L. Wendt, a noted science journalist, and Dows Dunham, curator emeritus of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...