Word: unpreparedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Helms was named CIA director by Lyndon Johnson, he had been thoroughly schooled in careful handling of Presidents. Nevertheless, writes Powers, Helms may have been too diffident about asserting himself on critical issues. Confronted with varying estimates of the strength of the North Vietnamese forces, he did not consistently...
"He wants to be told how the hearing will go, almost minute by minute, so he knows what he is going to get out of it." Adds another: "Heaven help you if you are unprepared. He has a very sharp temper, and he uses it very effectively." The questioning continued...
If key decisions are made informally at unprepared meetings, the tendency to be obliging to the President and cooperative with one's colleagues may vitiate the articulation of real choices. This seemed to me a problem in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. On the other hand, if the procedures...
After Carter's belated move to shore up the battered dollar in November 1978, the Administration showed little concern about the gold boom. As long as gold buyers were not singling out dollars for heavy selling, the fever was viewed as a monetary nonevent. But this complacency faded rapidly...
Unprepared for the double whammy on auto sales caused by gasoline shortages and recession, Chrysler is stuck with the highest inventory of the Big Three. In all, 80,000 cars and trucks, about a 95-day dealer supply, are lined up outside plants in rows resembling Flanders Field. President Lee...