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...Truman and Kennedy administrations is Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford, 56, a peerless behind-the-scenes political troubleshooter who is as close to Johnson as he was to Truman and a bit closer than he was to Kennedy. And then there is Lawyer Abe Fortas, 53, a New Deal brain-truster who served as F.D.R.'s Under Secretary of the Interior, and more recently has been retained as an attorney for a Johnson protege, ousted Senate Majority Secretary Bobby Gene Baker...
...bottomless energy, a devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster. In ad dition to acting as official First Lady for the bachelor President, she is in her own right one of the two or three most powerful people in the country and in a sense embodies all its problems...
Spins & Raves. Despite his position as resident brain-truster for the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Goethe was still a deeply disordered man. He had recovered from a near nervous breakdown, apparently brought on by an early wallow in romantic agonizing in which he alternately "melted and raved" like his hero Werther. The routine of official duties had steadied him. He had studied science and accepted the soothing ministrations (thought to be platonic) of an older woman named Charlotte von Stein. But she had encouraged him to write only fanciful verse that had nothing to do with life or the natural...
...State Department, which was supposed to be in overall command, was plagued by a dizzying succession of Latin American policymakers. First in charge was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Mann, who stayed on after the Eisenhower Administration left. Next came New Deal Brain-Truster Adolph Berle, who resigned soon after the disastrous Cuban invasion. Then it was Robert Woodward, a career diplomat who lasted eight months before going to Spain as U.S. ambassador...
...fragile-looking but tough-minded beauty of 38, Madame Nhu is the wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's brother and closest brain-truster, serves as her bachelor brother-in-law's official First Lady. Around Madame Nhu and her husband swirls much of the opposition to Diem's regime. Critics blame their considerable influence on Diem for the excesses of his government, argue that he would become more tractable and his administration more liberal if he got rid of them...