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...their accomplishment and felt that most, if not all, the differences that had arisen between the two countries in the last year of the Diefenbaker regime had been dispelled. At a cocktail party the first afternoon, Pearson brought down the roof by quipping, when an aide handed him a memo, "Mr. President, I've just found this piece of paper lying around. I'd better check to make sure there are no marginal notes on it."* Humor and good fellowship filled the room, and Pearson moved easily among the reporters, exchanging jokes and talking about baseball. "Well...
...contract (TIME, March 22; April 5). Then the Washington Star's Pentagon Reporter Richard Fryklund got hold of a behind-the-scenes (but unclassified) Air Force memorandum detailing the moans of Air Force experts who felt they had been cruelly treated by the subcommittee's staff. The memo complained that staff interrogators' "oral abuse . . . harsh language . . . threats . . . rapid-fire questions . . . emotional rantings" had so unnerved the doughty men of the Pentagon that one collapsed from "nervous exhaustion and recurring ulcer" and two more came down with "deep fatigue...
McNamara got sizzling angry. It wasn't that he "doubted the truth" of the memo, he told a purpling Senator McClellan. But he himself, said McNamara. had "done everything possible to bottle up what is a very damaging memorandum." He had directly ordered that it be locked in a Pentagon safe. And now here it was on the front pages. "This has happened to me 15 or 20 times in the last 26 months." rumbled McNamara. "I became so upset about the situation that on several occasions I have discussed it with the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover...
...time McNamara did not call the FBI, but summoned his Air Force inspector general, burly, crew-cut Lieut. General W. H. ("Butch" I Blanchard. The general swept right into the leak-seeking game by calling Reporter Fryklund to his office and asking him point-blank who gave him the memo. Fryklund stood firm upon his obligation to protect his sources, so Blanchard unleashed his plainclothes investigators...
...previous success was December's notorious "eyeball-to-eyeball" account of the Cuba crisis. But as long as the blockbusters make a lot of noise, the Post does not seem much concerned by any fallout. "The final yardstick" of the magazine's impact, said Blair in a memo to his staff, is the fact that "we have about six lawsuits pending, meaning that we are hitting them where it hurts...