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...privilege expanded in the cold war. Widening areas of federal activity were removed from congressional -or public-scrutiny. Foreign and defense policies were often deemed too sensitive to be disclosed. Congress, meanwhile, made a miserable case for the right to know. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, it hounded the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations for FBI files on federal employees whose politics were suspect. To keep congressional hands off, both Presidents made sweeping claims of privilege...
NONFICTION ¶1-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) ¶2 -The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (2) ¶3-Harry S. Truman, Truman (4) ¶4-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (3) ¶5-1'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) ¶6-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (7) ¶7-' 'Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (8) ¶8-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (6) ¶9-The Implosion Conspiracy, Nizer ¶10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten...
...Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins (1) 2-The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam (2) 3-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (4) 4-Harry S. Truman, Truman (3) 5-I'm O.K., You're O.K., Harris (5) 6-Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda (7) 7-All Creatures Great and Small, Herriot (8) 8-"Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,&#quot;O'Donnell, Powers, McCarthy (6) 9-The Manipulated Man, Vilar (10) 10-Soldier, Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert, U.S.A. (ret.) with James T. Wooten
...Harry S. Truman, Truman...
Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, Truman Capote told Television Host Johnny Carson that he and his friends were playing the most wonderful new game. What was it? Johnny asked. Well, said Truman, you list as fast as you can the 25 most boring people you know. The trick is to name people everyone else thinks are fascinating. Truman's top bores: First, Howard Hughes, because "who cares about his reclusion, his plane flights, his hiding and his money." Second, Aristotle Onassis, because "all he is doing is sitting in the corner of a nightclub thinking of ways...