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...news conference 20 minutes later, 100 yards away in the same Washington hotel, with its own 1¼lb. sheaf of affidavits. Neither side uncovered a "smoking gun," but each embarrassed the other, CBS by releasing accusations from Westmoreland's aides, the general by exposing a damning memo from the show's producer, George Crile...
...Louis Globe-Democrat, it was the Press-Scimitar's swinish attitude toward reporters from outside. The Press-Scimitar would shove a camera in the face of a dying leukemia victim, yet when it came time for itself to perish, Editor Milton R. Britten wrote in a memo, "I don't want anybody with pompadours and gleaming teeth in our newsroom with Minicams on the last day. Nor do I want any local or nonlocal journalists on our floor." He went on to say that he did not "want to submit any of our troops to the indignity...
However, residents soon learned that the memo was no more than a prank engineered by the Harvard Lampoon, a social club...
...superiors, however, saw in the young officer qualities that did not leap from his 201 file. He had a grin that could melt the coldest commanding officer. He could write a mean memo, a talent then, as now, in short supply in the Army. He could take an abandoned field at Gettysburg, Pa., and turn it into a tank corps training camp with impressive speed and imagination, and without benefit of tanks. Douglas MacArthur picked Eisenhower in 1935 to help him build an army for the soon-to-be-independent Philippines. At the outbreak of World War II, General George...
Although he denies being part of a Reagan wrecking crew, Bogard knows that others in the organization do not agree. A recent memo from two of his deputies ordered regional staffers not to have any contact with elected officials or the press. The latest source of indignation in the ranks is a set of proposed new regulations that could make millions of poor people, many of them elderly, ineligible for free legal assistance. The pending rules could disqualify those with more than $15,000 equity in a home or $4,500 in a car. They would also assume that...