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CORRESPONDENCE Sick, Sick, Sick I refer to your editorial (June/ July 1978) reprinted in the Detroit News on August 13, 1978, regarding Richard Nixon. Please be informed that whether you know it...
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...Economics as if only SOME people mattered "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it short...
...that poems coding the decimal digits of n have been written...
...Allen Macy Dulles, had the baby taken at once to a neighboring city for an operation, and only after it had been successfully performed was Allen baptized...
...Lawrence Houston, former general counsel of the CIA, for "enabling me to gain access to the Allen Welsh Dulles Papers at Princeton...
...found a method of calculating n that defied improvement for over 1900 years...
...The North Vietnamese were then flummoxing his every scheme, the Soviets had him by the short hairs, the world seemed alive with protesting adolescents, and poor Henry had to spend whole evenings listening to a nincompoop talk of her mother...
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...He wrote me again on July 23, 1977: "As to Dr...
...And why not...
...Of course, I too omitted the last quotation in my book...
...Yet in one of the quieter passages of his frequently quoted undergraduate thesis Henry had noted that: "Life involves suffering and transitoriness...
...Clark, Jeanie and I went up to Princeton last week (alas just before your letter arrived) to deposit the Wilson Papers which I believe I told you about...
...Houston wrote me on May 3, 1977: "I called Dr...
...Macomber wrote me on November 15, 1977: "...I approve of your using the extracts from my oral history statement which you enclosed...
...I have informed them of my displeasure and I could not pass up the chance to let you know my most innermost thoughts...
...By day he goosestepped through the White House, the most obsequious flatterer ever imagined in this democratic Republic...
...Hanes wrote to me on October 4, 1977, saying, in part: "I am returning the 'Quotes' with certain corrections and deletions and am pleased to give you permission to publish them in your book...
...Hanes, Macomber, and O'Connor were included among all the rest to whom I submitted quotations for their correction and approval...
...that a verse in the Bible implies n = 3...
...Clark's manuscript section are in total disarray due to the fact that several new large acquisitions have accelerated a much needed move into new space...
...pickle-dime charitable affairs at Hickory Hill, fund-raising dinners for various far-off, legal defense funds, and concertsat the famed Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—one of America's few examples of Middle Mussolini architecture...
...I can see him now centered in a halo of anxious faces...
...Maybe editors who have given space to antinuclear insanities will begin to ask themselves what has become of honest reporting...
...Readers of that book will already know that I am a fervent and steadfast admirer of Ms...
...I will never pass up the opportunity of letting jerks like you know that there are still people like me...
...Battle made to me during a long conversation was sent to him for checking, corrected by him, and approved for publication...
...I therefore did not quote Mr...
...The tawdry celebration of success, particularly financial success, has for decades been one of the less appealing aspects of American life, but the glorification of success by Washingtonians is a world removed from the bourgeois orgies of, say, the Rotary...
...Henry firmly believed—and with justification—that today in America one cannot get one's policies accepted without comforting these asses, and so he set out to conquer Georgetown...
...In time they even prayed together...
...Nor did I use any other quotations from other oral histories when those who originally made them requested their deletion...
...Perhaps these hours with Barbara were the cruelest of all...
...For example, she calls my description of his return to the State Department in 1950 "bizarre" and chides me for relying too heavily on the evidence of Lucius Battle who, she implies, was too young to have a balanced judgment...
...I cannot therefore understand how Ms...
...Foster's son, Avery Dulles, has written of 'dozens of errors.' " In fact, Messrs...
...Dulles has dedicated herself to the task of defending her brother's reputation as a statesman at all costs, and I salute her for her loyalty...
...Incisively, always based on hard data, Beckmann : punctures one slogan of the nuclear opponents after • another...
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...Dulles objects to my opinion of her brothers is herright, and I respect her faithfulness to their memory...
...O'Connor wrote on August 11, 1977: "I would be delighted to have you quote from my Oral History of my old chief....I have reviewed the various quotes you sent me and find them accurate to the best of my memory...
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...Under the circumstances, I feel I am justifit'd in' re36 The American Spectator October 1978 vicious personal attac • k • • • • "A The book that has wounded Mr...
...there is plenty left for those who wish to skip the more difficult mathematical places...
...that in 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives passed a bill legislating the (wrong) value of n? ...that the value of n is now known by computer evaluation to half a million decimal digits...
...Let the rumors blow in the wind...
...As a result the work they had optimistically started on accessioning Allen's material has come to a full stop and will not be started up again for some time...
...DID YOU KNOW...
...Dulles' method of attacking me and my book is her remark: "There are references to the 'Allen Dulles Papers' which, I am told by the librarians at Princeton, were not made available to Mosley...
...There they would sit in one of their glittering townhouses, a manse now made sad by the Nixon madness...
...Let me make it clear at once: All quotations from the JFD Papers used in my book were sent to those who made them for checking and correction, some repeatedly in the case of those who tardily replied...
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...Dulles can write: "Some who were quoted by Mosley without their knowledge (John W. Hanes, William Macomber, Roderic L. O'Conner) have raised eyebrows...
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...At least since the palmy days of Camelot it has been an article of dogma in Washington that "the unpublicized life is not worth living," and so the giants are all in very thick with what the wretched Agnew was wont to call "the media...
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...Nixon should come back and get this country on the map again as a great power...
...do you think Beethoven was very happy?...People didn't eat very well in those days...
...The library and particularly Dr...
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...The first 10,000 of them are imprinted on the colored endsheets of this book...
...Nitze's remarks were, I need hardly say, referred back and approved by him before I used them...
...Petr Beckmann (University of Colorado), an enthralling, profusely illustrated account loaded with historical anecdotes and oddities...
...All immediate members of the family were pledged to secrecy and told never to reveal it to the outside world...
...Dulles, but in her passionate and even desperate crusade to restore the tattered political reputation of her brother, Foster, she really should cease from turning it into a vendetta against me, and she should certainly not continue to make demonstrably false charges against me over my use of material from the John Foster Dulles Papers at Princeton...
...Instead one celebrates the spending of it and that mysterious ontological state, fame...
...Henry's arrival —always dramatically late—would send a rush of relief through the room...
...ha% :7141' let Omaha Neb 6/21/1978 McCarthyism...
...Alexander P. Clark, the Curator of Ma nuscripts ,...I told him that there was no reason from the point of viewof our committee why you should not have access to Allen's papers if they could handle it as a practical matter...
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...W. Averell Harriman-, who wrote me on September 15, 1977: "I have no objections to your using my quotations about Dulles,...I regret, however, that I am unable to permit you to use the quotations...regarding President Eisenhower...
...My check for $9 is enclosed...
...And Mr...
...Dulles says he was "a young man with no experience in politics...
...But that does not give her the right to twist or deliberately misinterpret my accounts of various phases of JFD's career...
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...Dulles says of this incident: "The story could not originate, as Mosley claims, in 'sources close to the family.' Where it comes from is hard to imagine since it was not in the record...
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...There are many who would disagree with that description of him, even in 1950...
...Incidentally, some even more devastating comments about JFD's performance were made to me by Mr...
...As for Father Avery Dulles, S. J. , he too wrote me, on May 11, 1977: "I received today the quotes from our interview which you are thinking of using...
...Now let me deal with the incident described in Chapter One of my book, "Cradle Marks...
...While Allen's papers will probably stay with Foster's, they have had to make substantial adjustments to the latter including some additional indexing...
...The Japanese translation is now in its third, large printing...
...Richard Nixon had never seen such violent devotion...
...I have made some minor editorial changes...
...I have been away in England and France and have only just seen Eleanor Lansing Dulles' critique of my book, Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen and John Foster Dulles and their Family Network (June/ July 1978...
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...Yet by night he dined and disported with the giants of the town...
...It was an audacious course, for the cachet of a Harvard prof loses everything when the prof is in the employment of the hellish Nixon—which Henry was...
...Dulles says in her critique that this was "a minor episode" which I had "blown up...
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...Dulles claims it is, was meticulously researched, checked, and thought out...
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...I'll ask the next time I'm in touch there...
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...I might add that the transcript of this and other statements Mr...
...Dear Mrs...
...Leonard Mosley New York, New York Miss Dulles replies: Contrary to what Leonard Mosley writes, I have never been "desperate to restore" any "tattered reputation," so I shall not quote further from my correspondence with Princeton, Dean Rusk, Arthur Dean, or others who have given me true statements...
...Nobody could ever have written an article like that without ever having experienced something unimaginable...
...White House gossip had practically evaporated, there being few giants willing to claim a source in Nixon's administration, and the resulting sense of emptiness and powerlessness made their gatherings ever more subdued and melancholy...
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...I have read a number of anti-Nixon articles by you and your ilk, such as Sulzberger's New York Times, and Graham's Washington Post Rag, but you take the prize...
...Nevertheless there was news value in these trysts, and, according to Henry's grand strategy, he needed the ink...
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...Dulles makes no mention of these...
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...Allen himself was solemnly told of his birthtime defect at the age of six, and it must have had a traumatic effect upon the imaginative child...
...All I can say is that, since my book about them has been published, the "family network" has (with two notable exceptions) certainly come into play in an effort to damn and denigrate it...
...It is significant that in later life, whenever he was under stress and had an attack of gout (he was a lifetime sufferer from gout), the pain always first struck him in the once malformed foot...
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...They planned geopolitical strategy together, conceptualized together, tapped telephones together...
...And so he trudged off to dinner at the Alsops, drinks at the Harrimans, and those intimate evenings with Barbara Howar...
...But Battle, as Dean Acheson's chief aide, was the prime mover in getting JFD into State as a bipartisan adviser and was a close observer of JFD's behavior throughout...
...For the giants these were frightening years...
...The bliss of Dante has been lost in our civilization...
...How the Detroit News even printed that article is more than I can imagine...
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...The same thing happened when I submitted quotations to Mr...
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...Paul Nitze, and recorded in my book, but Ms...
...Dulles Princeton Papers in my book is in my acknowledgments, where I thank Mr...
...I am sure you will understand my unwillingness to permit these very personal quotes to be used...
...In Washington one almost never mentions money, at least one never mentions the act of amassing money...
...She particularly resents, it seems, my suggestion that a "family network" operated in Washington under Eisenhower when, simultaneously, Foster was Secretary of State, Allen was head of the CIA, and she ran the Berlin desk...
...This makes it difficult for them to find even a discrete file such as the Ciano one [which I had asked for—L.M.] may be and I think this is why you have not been answered...
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...This letter has gone on long enough, and I hope I have demonstrated that my book, far from being the "fiction" Ms...
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...But when Battle remarked that he later wondered "whether I had given birth to a monster" by bringing JFD into the State Department, and whenhe added that "I felt that thanks to me, a man had been foisted onto the government who was a disaster for the United States," he was speaking, after deep reflection, 27 years later, in 1977...
...There are giants in the media too, and anyway one has to do one's part to keep the evening news interesting and the news-weeklies au courant...
...In recopying them I have somewhat improved the grammar, added very little, and omitted only the last one, since I do not think my political ideas in 1940 should be immortalized...
...Have you been analyzed...
Vol. 11 • October 1978 • No. 10
