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Risks of Presidential Briefings Get Airing
A column recalls how presidential briefings and confidential material risk partisan use. It cites Truman, Lincoln, Adams, Jefferson, Maddox, McGovern, Dewey, and Marshall era anecdotes to illustrate how inside reports influence campaigns and policy, ending with a tale of a prefabricated house lost in Argentina.
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New York
Truman
Lar Daley
Uncle Sam
Korea
Lincoln
Townstone
George McClellan
John Adams
Tom Jefferson
Johnson
White House
Vietnam
Paris
Mediterranean
NATO
Greece
Maddox
John Birch Society
Iag
George McGovern
South Dakota
G.O.P
Tom Dewey
George Wallace
Toj
Washington
Dewey
Gen
Marshall
United States
Roosevelt
U.S. Navy
Pearl Harbor