How One Time Problem Was Solved

Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...

Part II – Sending The News To China

Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages – in spite of constant efforts to keep them shorter. Even though some went long, we were reminded that the President...

Clifford Hardin, R.I.P.

The AP reports: Former U.S. agriculture secretary and University of Nebraska chancellor Clifford Hardin has died. The university confirmed Hardin passed away Sunday. He was 94. Hardin became chancellor in 1954 and then president when the University of Nebraska system...