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...Clifford, a perennial adviser to postwar Democratic administrations, remembers an Eisenhower aide telling him that Ike was spared night work because his staff boiled 150-page memoranda down to two pages. Clifford replied: "There is only one trouble. If I could be the fellow who prepares the two-page memo, I'd be President instead...
...night, when Nixon is working in the Lincoln sitting room and wants something, it is Haldeman who jumps. Says Haldeman: "He reads a memo item that some project is under way, and he'll call me and say, 'Stop that, I don't want it done that way.' " One leading Republican, asked what would happen if he wanted a man to see the President over Haldeman's objections, snapped the answer: "He wouldn't see the President." There is a route of appeal ?but it leads back to Haldeman. One long acquaintance says: "It would be difficult...
...Nixon a memo. Nixon dislikes "the laying on of tongues," as White House locution has it, and much prefers spending three minutes reading a memo to hearing someone out in person for a quarter of an hour. Papers come down from the President with the scrawled notation: "Any comment? RMN." A neat red square is clipped to any urgent memo, any document seen by a key staffer is duly initialed, and everyone knows the deadlines for getting a note to Nixon. "If I have something ready by 2 p.m.," one aide says, "I know that the President will...
...paper of Presidential Aide Clark Mollenhoff, but it seems that he did not prompt the Register on this matter. In fact, it may have been the other way round. After the Register quoted Pentagon sources to cast doubt on the Bau Me item, Mollenhoff wrote a memo lumping it with other alleged CBS News indiscretions. The memo was circulated around the White House and leaked to Anderson...
...Graduate schools considering applicants for admission and this department in considering candidates for honors must necessarily examine the student's record for positive signs of academic excellence. Marks of 'credit' or 'pass' cannot, in their nature, be viewed as such signs," the memo says...