Again no no -- no reference to current controversies. The time is July 1961; the speaker is
Dean Acheson, President Truman’s Secretary of State, and a member of JFK’s executive
committee during the Berlin crisis:
Acheson reacted to mention of
Kennedy’s name by saying: “Gentlemen, you might as well face it. This nation is without leadership."
-- Richard Reeves, President
Kennedy: Profile of Power (1993),
p. 196
(This precedent is also relevant to current gossip about “sniping
at the President from within his own Administration".)
And, I.F. Stone, writing 1 Sept 1958, during Eisenhower’s second term:
It is tragic that just when another irrepressible crisis
looms ahead there should be such a
nobody in the White House.
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