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Bit Player : My Life with Presidents and Ideas /

The title "Bit Player" perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speechwriting team that ultimately hel...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hess, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword -- Preface -- Eisenhower -- First words -- Getting there -- First politics, 1952 -- Enter Professor Moos -- Drafted -- The Eisenhower White House, 1958-61 -- The staff -- The 1960 election -- Speeches -- Remembering Ike -- Nixon -- Interregnum, 1961 -- The Harlow miracle -- Working for Richard Nixon -- California, 1962 -- November 22, 1963 -- A bookmaker -- Lincoln Week, 1966 -- Harvard, 1967-68 -- MIami Beach, 1968 -- The 1968 campaign and Spiro T. Agnew -- Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs -- To HEW -- The White House Conference on Children -- A White House conference on youth -- What next? -- Leave-taking, 1972 -- Brookings -- Settling in -- Governmental Studies -- Things to do -- Watergate -- Talk -- The Presidency book -- Newswork -- Transitions -- Beth's list: a summing up -- September 11, 2001 -- Des Moines, Iowa, 1976 -- Kansas City, 1976 -- United Nations, 1974 and 1978 -- Make-A-Wish Foundation -- Campaign Etiquette -- Political cartoons -- The notorious RBG -- Hyman Rickover, "Father of the Nuclear Navy",1954 -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1977 -- Richard Avedon, 1990 -- Oliver Stone, 1994 -- Former British Prime Minister John Major, 2009 -- Circles within circles -- Afterword -- Thanks 
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520 |a The title "Bit Player" perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speechwriting team that ultimately helped draft the famed "Farewell Address" warning of the influence of the "military industrial complex." Then over the next two decades, Hess played bit roles aiding Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan--along the way observing up-close those presidents and many other senior political leaders. During his subsequent four-and-a-half decades at the Brookings Institution, Hess was well-positioned to monitor and comment on the achievements and failures of successive administrations. This memoir by a certified member of Washington's old-guard establishment is rich with insight into contemporary American democracy, poignant in its reflections of avoidable missteps by even the best and most experienced leaders, and consistently good-humored in the author's self-awareness of his own role behind the scenes of political power. Now in his mid-eighties, still involved at Brookings as a "senior fellow emeritus," Hess uses this memoir to look back at what he describes as concentric circles of research, travel, advising, writing, and teaching. But more than just a memoir, Bit Player offers deeply informed commentary on the major political actors and seminal events in the nation's capital over the past six decades. One of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, Stephen Hess is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (2004-2009). Hess served on White House staff during the Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter. 
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