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Across the desk of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last week came a memo stamped OPERATIONAL IMMEDIATE. "Due to the graveness of the situation at Hodag," it said, "and the effect this jurisdictional strike may have on the McClellan Committee and public opinion, I thought that you should be advised before we take action." It was signed by Assistant Air Force Secretary Joseph Imirie. Always a man to get going on things, Goldberg ordered a subordinate to get cracking on the Hodag dispute. Top aides were soon in a tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified...
Aside from falling into pools, Schlesinger, 44, is a former Harvard history professor and prizewinning author (The Age of Jackson, etc.), who serves as President Kennedy's court philosopher, instant historian, vice president in charge of sparkling conversation, memo composer and occasional speechwriter. He also keeps Kennedy up to date on Latin America and the United Nations. White House staffers who need to try out new ideas often put them on Schlesinger's thought-train to see if they get off at Hyde Park. New Frontier hostesses prize...
...economy. The most conspicuous effort was President Kennedy's Yale University speech. It was the work of several minds. Sometime Harvard History Professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., now a presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away on the speaker's platform at Yale...
...Hilary Moseley, head of the Agriculture Department's Dallas commodity office, sent a memo to Washington in 1960 warning that Estes' complex operations involved heavy indebtedness. Moseley suggested that Estes' grain-storage bond should be higher than $200,000. After Moseley's memo, the bond eventually was raised to $700,000-still a ridiculously low figure for an operation of such size...
...three times they have skittered away and gone safely back to New York, leaving the Senator pondering his persistent question: Why does television pander so to sex and violence? Last week Senator Dodd wanted to know what CBS-TV President James Aubrey had in mind in an interoffce memo asking for more "broads, bosoms and fun" in the vapid Route 66 series. Aubrey was cool. Outsiders did not understand what the industry meant by sex. "I've heard it used in every connotation from mother-and-child scenes to the way an actress walks." With that in mind, Aubrey...