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...Participants. There was, perhaps, a suspicion that the press had been a little too interpretive too early in the campaign and was now making amends. After the Republican Convention, Wes Gallagher, general manager of the Associated Press, had circulated a memo to all his hands. "The Associated Press newsman," it said, "is not and should not be a participant in the news-he is a recorder of it." On many newspapers, notably the New York Times, similar injunctions went out to the staff...
...knew most of the Parisian literary lights of the late '20s and early '30s and became, by his own testimony, "an ear into which they dropped their most private avowals." More important, he recorded some of those avowals in his autobiography, which he called his "moral memo" to the world. Published posthumously in France in 1946 and now translated into English for the first time, Witches' Sabbath is a bizarre compound of self-pity, fantasy and braggadocio, relieved by occasional passages of honest self-appraisal and sound literary sense. It constitutes, as one French literary critic...
...Employees. In Washington, New Frontier chieftains were busy spreading the word. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who had made a faux pas early in the Kennedy Administration when his name appeared on a Democratic fund-raising note to oil and gas industry executives, now sent a memo to all "Heads of Bureaus and Offices" in his far-flung department. The solicitation was part of a "Government-wide campaign," said Udall, adding: "I am sure we are all eager to contribute our share toward this building in his honor. ... As in other campaigns, your chairman should submit a weekly performance report...
Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach sent a memo to Justice Department employees: "A program has been organized for all of us who wish to contribute to do so. Special rosters have been prepared for contributors to sign so that their participation can be made part of the library's archives. This effort is completely voluntary." Similar messages went out from Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
There is a fairly extensive history of presidential-library fund-raising efforts. Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt got off a memo to Agriculture Department employees suggesting that they contribute to the Hyde Park Library, then did some fast backpedaling when the press caught wind of it. Harry Truman's campaigners solicited top businessmen, pointing out that all contributions were, of course, taxdeductible. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Adlai Stevenson took to nationwide television to ask donations for Dwight Eisenhower's library in Abilene, Kans...