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...start with some grave handicaps. Although he has served for six years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is no expert on U.S. policy abroad. Last week officials overseas were trying desperately to learn more about him. The Japanese Foreign Ministry hastily put together a two-page background memo on Muskie, but, admitted one official, "it only contained what has been in the newspapers...
Though Carter on many previous occasions has assailed the Israeli settlement policy as a "hindrance" to peace, he did not raise the issue in his talks with Begin. Nor did he respond to the other points in Begin's memo, even when the Israeli Premier asked him to do so. "Let's ask Sadat," Carter murmured...
...children," Frances Ann Purcell: "A Teuton/Celt of high intelligence, a mathematical mind, physical size, strength and beauty, she had it all." Liddy finished Fordham law school, passed the New York bar exam in July 1957, and in September was sworn in as an FBI agent. "I submitted a memo on Frances [to the FBI] and had her checked," he writes. "She was clean." The two were married on Nov. 9, 1957, as Liddy was finishing training at the FBI Academy. At the wedding ceremony, Liddy wore a gun under his morning coat...
...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
Indecisives come in two varieties: "analysts," who are afraid of making a mistake, and "be-nicers" who are afraid of making enemies. Bramson says analysts should be given plenty of documentation: if a memo has complicated figures, attach the adding machine slip or a note saying "I've checked these numbers." Despite their indecision, he says, analysts respond well to deadlines, if the lead time is stretched a bit. In dealing with be-nice people, the point is to keep the employee talking long enough to find out what is really going on. Don't push...