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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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