'A THOUSAND DAYS' -MORE THAN A MEMOIR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200640012-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 29, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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It 2F10LTSAND DAYS: Jahn Zie also kept, a private count of "John F. Kennedy
F. Kennedy in the W1,.itej journal. At first, the notes in the White House." It deals
House. By Arthur M. Schles?~nvere fragmentary; the Presi- clearly and perceptively with
inc~er in 1087 pages. Hauf/h-;dent had. made it clear that the state of the world in the,
tan. Mifflin. $9. he didn't want members of Kennedy years-the Issues at
phis staff setting down all the ~ 'stake in all the continents,
By Maurice Dolbier (daily chit-chat of Whits the challenges of the nuclear
~~HESE' are the years thatLHouse life, because "he age, "the. grand dynamic of
were, from the' day ill, wished no restraint. on his modern history:" Its views of
January, 1961, when we seemed 'own freedom of expression." both the foreign and domestic
to have become younger and This changed, for Schlesinger, ! scenes are not narrowed to a
{ stronger, to the November dayiafter. the Bay of Pigs; The partisan and political focus,
in 1963 when we were sud-;President said to him, "I hole , but widened to include social,
denly and terribly older ("We'll you kept a full account of :? economic and cultural trends.
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Grory. And Daniel Moynihan ehe did not wan
!Assistant Secretary of Labor, (;full accounts of anything. He, ness in it. Mr. Schlesinger's
said: "Heavens, Mary. We'll ;aid, No, go ahead. You can style is witty and vigorous,
!laugh again. It's just that The damn sure that the CIA' ` and the matters he deals with
i" iihas its rrecord and the ,loins
are still of immediate and
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we ll never be young
g n hiefs theirs. We'd better {
concern.
Norman, Mailer wrote then immense , r
"For a time we felt` the 4 hake sure that, we have a 0? . , ,
!country was ours. Now it'syrecord over here. So you go
theirs again," and in the first ahead.' I did." (Schlo urger
shock of grief and despair, jopposed the Bay of Pin's ex
edition. In its aftermath,
,that is how it seemed to be.
But it wasn't "theirs," be McGeorge Bundy reminded''
cause those thousand ? days Kennedy of this. The Presi-
!had been, and during that; dent said, -"Oh, sure. Arthur
short and shining span of wrote me a memorandum that,
time John F. Kennedy, in will Toole pretty good when he
the words of historian'; gets around to writing his,
Arthur Schlesinger, had 'book on my' administration.
re-established the republic ' Only he better not publish
as the first generation of our . that memorandum while I'm'
leaders saw it-young, brave, still alive. ,' .. And I have a
(civilized, rational, gay, tough, title for his book: 'Kennedy
questing, exultant in the The Only Years.' ")
jexcitement and potentiality Mr. Schlesinger describes
,of history. . The energies his book as 'being a personal
he released, the standards , memoir and not a compre
,,thhe set, the purposes lie ( ,hensive history. This doesn't
(inspired, the.goals he estab- do the work full justice, for;
/dished would guide the. land while It is not comprehensive,
+he loved for years''to come." -it deals principally with
Mr.- Schlesinger- was it foreign affairs-it is\much;
Special . Assistant to the more than a personal memoir?
1President, a post " that had much more, even, than a d - : ,
(been described to him in.
(advance as that of a "roving
reporter and trouble-shooter."
;'He. roved, 'he reported, and
he served as a kind of human
1"hot line" between the Ken-
nedy Administration and the
nation's easily disenchanted
intellectuals,,
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