The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

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of science in the region. In particular, his Cape focus, while justified, leaves much to be done on

other parts of South Africa.S IMONPOOLEY

University of Oxford

ANN GIBBONS

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors.

New York:

Knopf, 2007. Pp. ix+303. ISBN 1-4000-7696-X. $14.95 (paperback).

doi:10.1017/S0007087409002155

The dramatic hominid fossil finds of the last half-century have stimulated interest in the history of

palaeoanthropology. Thus far historians have tended either to trace the discovery of various

hominid fossils or the debates that have arisen between competing theories of how humans

evolved over time. Ann Gibbons’s book does these things too, but she also engages a number of

other issues of central importance both in contemporary palaeoanthropology and in the history

and sociology of science.

Gibbons is a science journalist who has ‘covered’ Africa and so has got to know a number of

the scientists working there. As a result, she brings to her book a great deal of personal knowledge

of the events described. She concentrates on the efforts of several key groups of researchers who,

over the last thirty years, have conducted excavations searching for the earliest human ancestors.

In order to situate this research in its historical context, she opens with several chapters providing

a general overview of developments in palaeoanthropology during the early and mid-twentieth

century. Inevitably these chapters amount to a somewhat Whiggish account emphasizing just

those events which prepared the way for the problems constituting her central subjects.

Much of the book consists of a detailed and interesting discussion of the research of Richard

Leakey’s team at Koobi Fora in Kenya, Tim White’s team in the Middle Awash in Ethiopia,

Michel Brunet’s team in Chad, and Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut in the Tungen Hills in

Kenya. Gibbons provides a thorough account of their discoveries of new hominid fossils and of

the competing interpretations of these fossils. She also analyses the role that research in molecular

anthropology has increasingly come to play in theorizing about human evolution. One of the

strengths of the book is the extent to which it shows how important the interdisciplinary coop-

eration between geologists, palaeontologists, anatomists, archaeologists and scientists of a variety

of other kinds has become in modern palaeoanthropology.

Where Gibbons differs from many others who have studied the history of this science is in her

attention to the sociological aspects of human origins research. She recognizes that there are

multiple layers of social, political and personal factors that contribute to the debates that abound

after the discovery of any new fossil hominid. Many of the stories Gibbons tells recount the

personal and professional disagreements among palaeoanthropologists, offering a fascinating

glimpse into the dynamics of a specific scientific community. Even more interesting from a

sociological and historical perspective, however, are her discussions of the international politics

of palaeoanthropological research. Gibbons describes the procedures by which teams of primarily

American and European scientists, supported by universities or other institutions, gain access to

excavation sites and obtain the necessary permits from national governments in Africa to search

for fossils. She also describes how African governments have replaced lax policies with more

rigorous ones as they have come to recognize the value of their prehistoric fossils and artefacts in

both economic and national heritage terms. At the same time, she discusses the extremely com-

petitive nature of human origins research and the manoeuvring that researchers and institutions

employ in order to obtain permits to excavate.

Within the discipline of palaeoanthropology itself, issues of ethical research practices and

appropriate professional behaviour have become important questions in the face of con-

tentious relationships between research groups. Gibbons outlines recent debates among

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palaeoanthropologists about who should have authority and access to excavation sites and who

should have the right to exercise professional or institutional power within the discipline. She

notes that opposing groups of researchers defend their views on these issues on the basis of very

different conceptions of how the politics of science should work and also the kind of training and

education required in order for a researcher to be allowed to conduct excavations. Disagreements

along these lines have direct implications for the way palaeoanthropology has developed a pro-

fessional identity and sets of accepted research practices over the last half-century.

The detailed history of the discoveries and debates over recent African hominid fossils and the

unusual attention paid to broader social and political factors in palaeoanthropology are the

primary strengths of The First Human. However, Gibbons’s experience as a journalist affects the

way she approaches and handles the material in the book, which often results in a lack of his-

torical context when examining specific events or issues. She gives prominence to the discovery of

hominid specimens and does not offer sufficient discussion of the anthropological or biological

theories that are critical to the interpretation of these fossils. The references for much of the

material that is discussed are not as extensive as one would demand from a scholarly work, and

Gibbons does not situate her subject within the context of other scholarly literature on the history

of palaeoanthropology. However, historians of science will find much of interest in this work,

and the general reader will be treated to an informative account of an important area of con-

temporary science.

MATTHEW R. GOODRUM

Virginia Tech

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Moon dust

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Moon dust a threat to space exploration according to reports

A another trip to the Moon could be hampered by dust and be a major threat to spacecraft and humans, it was stated at a recent space conference.

Attendees of the conference heard that simulations by scientists in Britain and France have shown that in key zones of Earth’s satellite where dust was stirred up by a landing or exploration gains cause an electrostatic force that hampers lunar gravity.
As a result, the dust lingers high above the surface, presenting a thin grey cloud of fine, sticky, abrasive particles that hamper visibility, coat solar panels and threaten moving parts, they said.
Some kinds of lunar dust are laden with iron, presenting a toxicity risk for humans if breathed in, they said.
Farideh Honary, a professor at the University of Lancaster, northwestern England, said lunar dust was already identified as a potential hazard by returning Apollo astronauts.
But only now, with mounting interest in a return to the Moon, were scientists taking a closer look, she said.
“We need to study the dust in much more detail and to do more measurements before (sending) manned missions,” she said by phone.
In a computer simulation presented at the annual conference in Edinburgh of Britain’s Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), Honary said dust did not behave uniformly around the Moon.
What makes the dust levitate and cling is a force caused by electrostatic charge.
Exposure to ultraviolet rays in sunlight drives out electrons and gives the dust a positive charge. But at night-time or in shadow, the torrent of particles spewed out from the Sun charges the dust with electrons, giving it a negative charge.
The dust movement occurs most in areas where the Sun is either rising or setting, and dust particles of opposite charges that are disturbed get pulled towards each other, floating in a haze.
“On most of the lunar surface, a rover would experience roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of darkness, so the transition between the two would last a long time by terrestrial standards,” said Prof Honary.
“Engineers really do need to think about this,” she said.
Building a “dome-shaped” rover from which the dust slides, as opposed to a rover that is box-shaped or has lots of crevices or surfaces on which the dust could fall, would be a good option, she said.
The last manned mission to the Moon was Apollo 17, in 1972.
China has said it will attempt to land an exploratory craft on the Moon in the second half of 2013 and transmit back a survey of the lunar surface. Chinese mission controllers are mulling five locations for a site where a six-wheeled rover will be deployed.
Indian space officials have also sketched plans for sending a rover in 2015

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U.S.-Vietnam Relations

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Good Will, Trade Characterize U.S.-Vietnam Relations

Panetta's Visit Highlights Diplomacy

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United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta visited Hanoi, Vietnam, June 4, 2012, as part of a trip through Southeast Asia to help the United States reorient its foreign policy toward the Asia Pacific region instead of the Middle East. Forty years ago, with the Vietnam War still six months from ending, such a trip would have been unthinkable. No doubt many a Vietnam veteran finds it hard to believe that the U.S. and Vietnam have had normalized relations for 17 years.
In fact, the country that is so synonymous with American military bungling and social upheaval now plays host to more than 400,000 U.S. tourists yearly.
Era Of Bad Relations And War
American military involvement in Vietnam began with World War II. Before the war, Vietnam was a French colony. In 1941, however, Japan took over the country. During the war, the United States teamed with Vietnam, China, and the United Kingdom to throw Imperial Japan out of Southeast Asia.
But at the war's end, victorious European allies allowed France to retake Vietnam as an imperial possession. Vietnamese nationalists, led by Ho Chi Minh, had hoped that World War II would mark the end of Vietnamese colonialism, and they opposed the French return. (Ho Chi Minh had styled himself a revolutionary leader of Vietnam comparable to America's George Washington; he even hoped to have an American-style "declaration of independence" and a July 4 independence day.)
The United States, which became de facto Western leader after World War II, could not abide Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary movement because he had ties to both Communist Russia and China. Instead, the U.S. backed the French return. In 1954, however, Ho Chi Minh and his military leader Vo Nguyen Giap embarrassed the French at the siege of Dienbienphu and forced them to give up the country.
Instead of allowing the communist Ho Chi Minh and his followers to take control of the country, the U.S. stepped into the power vacuum created when France left. As a compromise, the U.S. partitioned the country at the 17th Parallel (close to the thin geographic neck of the country) and allowed Ho and the Communists to govern North Vietnam from Hanoi. A U.S.-backed "democratic" government ran South Vietnam from Saigon. When the U.S. reneged on a promise to allow free elections in 1956 to determine the unification of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh began resistance against the United States.
The U.S. actively fought North Vietnamese and Viet Cong (South Vietnamese who fought for the Communists) from 1965 to 1973 when it ceased military action. In April 1975, North Vietnamese troops rolled across the south, united the country under a communist government. They changed the name of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the leader who had died in 1969.
Era Of Good Relations
While Vietnam remains "communist," free market forces drive it more now than Marxist ideology. This statement from the U.S. State Department sums it up nicely: " Though Vietnam remains a one-party state, adherence to ideological orthodoxy has become less important than economic development as a national priority."
In July 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton formally normalized diplomatic relations with Vietnam. They exchanged ambassadors, and the U.S. has consulates in Ho Chi Minh City and Danang, both of which were U.S. bases in the war.
Other elements of U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation include:

U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement, 2001, which has facilitated trade between the two countries. U.S. exports to Vietnam in 2010 totaled $3.7 billion; imports from Vietnam were $14.9 billion.

Foreign Direct Investment from U.S. private investors equaled $9.8 billion.

Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, 2003, amended 2008, enables direct passenger flights between the U.S. and Vietnam, as well as cargo flights.

Unexploded ordinance location and clearing: the U.S. State Department has committed $62 million over two decades to finding and removing unexploded munitions from the Vietnam War.

Search For MIAs
During Panetta's visit, Vietnam announced that it was opening three new areas in which to search for the remains of American soldiers listed as Missing In Action (MIA). The State Department reports that 1,288 soldiers remain unaccounted for in Vietnam. Four times each year, a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) conducts searches to account for the missing personnel.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Fiftieth Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis

Robert Kennedy's Family Releases Related Documents

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This month -- October 2012 -- marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis, which evolved over 13 days, centered on the Soviet Union's placement of nuclear-capable missiles in Cuba, where three years earlier Fidel Castro had staged a successful communist revolution.
The revolution put Cuba in the Soviet sphere of influence; at only 90 miles from Florida, Cuban communism was a dramatic failure of the U.S. policy of containment. As far as the U.S. was concerned, the Cuban-Soviet link was also a violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
But the Cuban-Soviet alliance also created a more urgent situation. It provided the Soviet Union with a base for missiles that could strike not only much of the United States, but Central America and South America as well. The U.S. had pledged to defend Latin American countries in a series of post-World War II alliances; as such the possibility of missiles in Cuba made the U.S. look weak.

The Crisis

On October 14, 1962, an American U2 spy plane took nearly 1,000 photographs showing Soviet missiles, launchers, warheads, and unassembled Soviet bombers in Cuba. Some of the warheads were nuclear. In addition, the Soviets had placed up to 40,000 troops in Cuba.
President John F. Kennedy convened an "executive committee" (EXCOMM) of advisors to help him negotiate the crisis. Chief among them was Kennedy's brother, Robert, who was also U.S. attorney general.
The Kennedys had two obvious choices, neither good: accept Soviet missiles in Cuba or invade Cuba and oust the Soviets. Kennedy was already gun-shy of invasion scenarios, as the CIA-led Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba had failed in 1961.
Kennedy and EXCOMM crafted a third option. The U.S. declared a blockade around Cuba that would prevent Soviet ships from delivering necessary equipment to ready the missiles. The U.S. would regard any Soviet attempt to break the blockade as an act of war.
A week into the crisis, Kennedy announced the blockade to the public, and he put American military units around the globe on high alert. Soviet ships approached the blockade line, and Americans nervously followed the showdown. Historians regard the second week of the crisis as the closest the world has come to nuclear war.
Meanwhile, Robert Kennedy engaged in covert negotiations with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. He suggested a deal by which the Soviets publicly remove its missiles from Cuba, and the U.S. would agree to never invade Cuba. Secretly, the U.S. would also remove missiles from Turkey, which were as much a threat to the Soviets as the Cuban missiles were to the U.S.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev accepted the deal, and the Cuban Missile Crisis ended.

RFK Documents/History Lesson

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the crisis, the family of Robert F. Kennedy has released a trove of RFK's documents regarding the incident and his secret diplomacy.
The documents provide a new set of primary sources through which researchers can look at the missile crisis.
Primary sources are the building blocks of history. Like elements or integers in other disciplines, primary sources provide the basis of research and interpretation that inform interpretation for historians, political scientists, and other diplomatic, public policy, and social science experts.
Primary sources tend to be journals, diaries, notebooks, or other records kept by key players in an event or during a given time. (Secondary sources, in case you're wandering, are the books, monographs, or articles that researchers write after consulting primary documents.)
Will the RFK sources reveal anything new about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Hard to tell until researchers comb through them and put their interpretations on them. The crisis has long been regarded as a case study in executive decision making. (Check out Graham T. Allison's and Philip Zelikow's Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1999) for a highly regarded examination of the subject.)
You can be sure, however, that the documents will reveal more about the working relationship of the Kennedy brothers, as well as the intricacies of diplomacy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Steve Jones
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Nixon Goes To China

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Normalizing U.S.-Chinese Relations

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In early 1972, the United States and China had no diplomatic relations. That changed in February of that year when U.S. President Richard Nixon flew to Beijing (then commonly called Peking) and broke 22 years of Cold War tension between the two countries.

Background

In 1949, following years of civil war, Mao Zedong's Communists defeated Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists for control of the country. Chiang and his party retreated to the island of Taiwan, which the United States quickly recognized as the sole Chinese government.
The U.S. was committed to its anti-Communist foreign policy in the wake of the Soviet Union's unabashed takeover of territory after World War II. In fact, Soviet leader Josef Stalin had promised to help revolutionary Communist movements around the globe, and he and Mao had formed an alliance. Mao also based much of his governmental policies around Soviet Stalinism.
U.S./Chinese relations deteriorated in the 1950s. American soldiers fought Chinese troops in the Korean War (1950-53), and President Dwight D. Eisenhower threatened armed intervention when mainland China appeared ready to attack Taiwan.

Sino-Soviet Split

Later in the 1950s, however, a crack developed in Sino-Soviet relations. When Stalin died in 1953, his successor as Nikita Khrushchev began to distance himself from Stalin's oppressive, dictatorial style. That alarmed Mao since he had patterned himself after Stalin.
Khrushchev later began cutting monetary and technological aid to agricultural China. Desperate to industrialize, Mao instituted what he called "The Great Leap Forward" -- a plan to have all rural Chinese people begin making "steel" from scrap metals.
Chinese neglected their crops and instead made worthless metal products. As crops failed, people starved. Between 1958 and 1961, some 30 million Chinese died. For their effort, China was no closer to becoming an industrialized nation.
Internally wounded, China was also increasingly isolated on a global scale. As border fighting broke out between Chinese and Soviet troops, China found itself pitted against its old ally and still cut off from the Western world by the American policy of containment.

Exploiting The Breach

Enter Richard Nixon. Nixon had made a political reputation after World War II by chasing Communists. He gained national fame by leading an investigation of accused Communist Alger Hiss, and he parlayed that notoriety into eight years as Eisenhower's vice-president. Eisenhower struck a relaxed, affable posture as president; he left strong-arm anti-Communism to Nixon and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Nixon again became famous for debating Khrushchev on the merits of capitalism versus communism in a mock-up of a modern kitchen at a Moscow exhibition.
Nixon lost the 1960 presidential race to John F. Kennedy, as well as the 1962 California gubernatorial race. Still, private-citizen Nixon kept up with foreign affairs, and he keenly watched the widening Sino-Soviet rift.
Nixon won the 1968 U.S. Presidential race, and as soon as he took office in 1969, Nixon set his National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger to begin exploiting China's isolation.

Nixon Goes To China

Popular foreign policy mythos holds that only a tough anti-Communist red-baiter like Nixon could confidently "go to China" and open a dialogue with the Red Chinese. (The idea even made it into popular culture in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: When Admiral Kirk, who had fought Klingons his whole career, opened "rapprochement" talks with Klingon officials, Spock wryly commented, "Only Nixon could go to China.")
However, as Tom Switzer has correctly observed at the National Review Online, others could have "gone to China." President Lyndon Johnson had suggested reconciliation with China as early as 1966. Strict 1949-style conservatives, not just liberals, were already questioning the efficacy of containment in light of the Vietnam War.
Still, Nixon was the one who did it. He had Kissinger, via a secret trip to Beijing, secure an invitation from Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai for Nixon to visit. Just as Nixon wanted to negotiate through American power to end the Vietnam War, he wanted to do the same with China. As much as he saw warming relations as beneficial to both China and the U.S. (as well as a critical new wedge against the Soviet Union), Nixon wanted China to appear the beneficiary.
The invitation came, and Nixon announced in mid-1971 that he would travel to China in February 1972. He also began loosening trade restrictions with China.
Nixon touched down in Beijing on February 21. He immediately met with his old Cold War-rival Mao, and over the next week he had a series of meetings with Zhou.
On February 28, the last day of Nixon's trip, the U.S. and China jointly issued what is now known as the "Shanghai Communique." The communiqué indicated that the United States and China pledged to work toward normalized relations. They also found diplomatic language that enabled them to temporarily set aside the testy issue of American recognition of Taiwan so they could move forward. As the U.S. State Department says, "The United States acknowledged the Chinese position that all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is only one China and that Taiwan is part of China."
Nixon's trip did not immediately normalize relations with China. That came in 1979, but it did open the door for an American-Chinese relationship that ultimately helped end both the Vietnam War and the colossus of the Soviet Union.
Non-Web Source: Thomas G. Patterson, J. Garry Clifford, and Kenneth J. Hagan, American Foreign Relations: A History, Since 1865 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), pp 362-65.

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The Reagan Doctrine

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Rollback

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Ronald Reagan, the United States' 40th president, is widely perceived as the man who "brought down" the Soviet Union. Increasingly, that ranks him high in many a pollster's list of top American presidents.
Many Reagan detractors maintain that the actor-turned-president was simply the last in a long line of Cold Warrior presidents, and that he benefited from the policy of containment upheld by his predecessors, from Harry Truman to Jimmy Carter. (Not to mention the proxy wars many of those presidents waged against Soviet satellite countries, like North Korea and North Vietnam.)
Still others claim that the Soviet Union was destined to die on its own, killed by the rot of Communism which stifled entrepreneurship, personal incentive, and technological growth. They say that Reagan and his successor, George H.W. Bush, were just in office at the right time to reap the benefits of Communism's demise.
Regardless of which view of Reagan you hold -- aggressive Cold Warrior or passive Cold War beneficiary -- it is true that Reagan gave America's role in the Cold War new impetus with a document known as National Security Decision Directive 75.

Soviet Succession Crisis

At this writing, it has been just over 30 years since the National Security Council drafted NSDD 75 in January 1983. While Reagan had been in office two years and had made no secret he wanted to see the Soviet Union fall, NSDD 75 took advantage of a crisis in the Soviet Union.
That crisis was the death of Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982. Brezhnev had taken over the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1964 on the death of Nikita Khrushchev. Brezhnev's 18-year tenure was second only that of World War II leader Josef Stalin.
NSDD 75 predicted internal turmoil during Brezhnev's succession. "This may be a particularly opportune time for external forces to affect the policies of Brezhnev's successors," the document states.
The NSC understood that "the Soviet Union will be engaged in the unpredictable process of political succession to Brezhnev. The U.S. will not seek to adjust its policies to the Soviet internal conflict, but rather try to create incentives (positive and negative) for the new leadership to adopt policies less detrimental to the U.S. interests." Indeed, Brezhnev's succession was "unpredictable." Yuri Andropov immediately succeeded Brezhnev, only to die little more than a year later. Andropov was succeeded by Constantine Chernenko, who also died just over a year in office. Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who lead the Soviet Union through glasnost and perestroika and to its demise, took over in 1985.

Rollback -- Not Containment

NSDD 75 was based on a policy known as "rollback." Rollback was counter to the official U.S. policy of containment. U.S. diplomat George Kennan, who had spent much of World War II in the American embassy in Moscow, advised soon after the war that the U.S. should mount a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment" of the Soviet Union. Simply, the U.S. and its allies should hold the Soviet Union in territories it occupied at the close of World War II. (For example, it had occupied all of Eastern Europe and northern Korea at war's end.)
Containment, as codified by the Truman Doctrine in 1946, became the main pillar of U.S. foreign policy. John Foster Dulles, who would become President Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of state in 1953, advocated another policy, however. That policy was rollback -- pushing the borders of Soviet client states back to prewar lines.
Dulles was also the man who coined the phrase "massive retaliation" for any American response to a Soviet attack on the U.S. or its allies. In his rhetoric, Dulles practiced "brinkmanship," seemingly pushing Communist countries to the brink of war to prove American steadfastness.
Ultimately, Dulles' ideas, including rollback never became official policy. Truman had tried it in Korea with disastrous results. U.S. and U.N. troops nearly succeeded in wresting North Korea from Communist control in 1950, but they drew Chinese troops into the war who forced them back into South Korea. In Vietnam, President Lyndon Johnson fought a limited war for fear of escalating the conflict and drawing China -- or the Soviets -- into that war.
But in NSDD 75, Reagan and the NSC decided to quietly (the document was top secret in 1983) adopt a policy of rollback without the Dulles dramatics of brinkmanship.

When President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 75 (NSDD 75) in January 1983, he started the process of rolling back the Soviet Union which he had long espoused. NSDD 75 would go beyond the policy of containment of the Soviet Union that the U.S. had held since 1946.
NSDD 75, drafted by Reagan's National Security Council, had three basic tenets. One, to pressure the Soviet Union externally with a military might and geographic positioning. Two, to exert internal pressure with an economic policy that moved the U.S.S.R. toward "a more pluralistic political and economic system in which the power of the privileged ruling elite is gradually reduced." Three, engage the Soviet Union in negotiations that exploited any gains achieved by the first two objectives.

Military Strength

Much of NSDD 75 was based on American military strength, which, in 1983, needed a great deal of repair. "The U.S. must modernize its military forces - both nuclear and conventional - so that Soviet leaders perceive that the U.S. is determined never to accept a second place or a deteriorating military posture," NSDD 75 states.
"Deteriorating military posture" was something of an understatement. A decade earlier, the U.S. had left Vietnam after its failed venture to prevent that country from going Communist. In 1975, just after South Vietnam fell to the Communist North, U.S. Marines were barely able to rescue the crew of the Mayaguez who had been captured by Cambodians of the Khmer Rouge. In 1979, an American military expedition failed to rescue Americans whom Islamic fundamentalists had taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
True to the directive, Reagan presided over the largest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. By 1985, military spending had jumped from $142 billion a year to $286 billion a year. That included updates of the M1 Abrams tank, stealth fighter and bomber production, and updates of Cruise missiles. The era also saw the nation's military branches acquiring higher quality recruits than in the immediate post-Vietnam days, and they began focusing on tactical studies that had been all but abandoned in the 1960s.
In economic policy, NSDD 75 endeavored to:

"Ensure that East-West economic relations do not facilitate the Soviet military buildup. This requires prevention of the transfer of technology and equipment that would make a substantial contribution directly or indirectly to Soviet military power."

"Avoid subsidizing the Soviet economy or unduly easing the burden of Soviet resources allocation decisions, so as not to dilute pressures for structural change in the Soviet system."

"Minimize the potential for Soviet exercise of reverse leverage on Western countries based on trade, energy supply, and financial relationships."

"Permit mutual beneficial trade - without Western subsidization or the creation of Western dependence - with the USSR in non-strategic areas, such as grains."

NSDD 75 also called for the United States to keep traditional allies in "industrial democracies" under its wing; continue to oppose Soviet inroads into Third World areas, such as Central America; and to exploit Soviet weaknesses in Eastern Europe (where Polish rebellions were nearly three years old), Cuba, and Afghanistan. (Anyone who has seen Charlie Wilson's War knows of American efforts to turn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan into the U.S.S.R.'s own "Vietnam.")
The directive suggested that "A continuing dialogue with the Soviets at Foreign Minister level facilitates necessary diplomatic communication with the Soviet leadership and helps to maintain Allied understanding and support for U.S. approach to East-West relations. A summit between President Reagan and his Soviet counterpart might promise similarly beneficial results." Reagan held a series of summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, first in Geneva, Switzerland, then in Reykjavik, Iceland, that paved the way to new openness between their countries.
Finally, NSDD 75 encouraged a reaffirmation of basic American tenets to underscore its goals. "U.S. policy must have an ideological thrust which clearly affirms the superiority of U.S. and Western values of individual dignity and freedom, a free press, free trade unions, free enterprise, and political democracy over the repressive features of Soviet Communism," the document states.
In countless speeches and appearances, Reagan stressed just that. Dressed in blue suit, white shirt, and red tie -- with his perennial American flag lapel pin -- Reagan was the embodiment of NSDD 75. In his hands, the document became one of the true milestones of the Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

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The Reagan Doctrine

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When President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 75 (NSDD 75) in January 1983, he started the process of rolling back the Soviet Union which he had long espoused. NSDD 75 would go beyond the policy of containment of the Soviet Union that the U.S. had held since 1946.
NSDD 75, drafted by Reagan's National Security Council, had three basic tenets. One, to pressure the Soviet Union externally with a military might and geographic positioning. Two, to exert internal pressure with an economic policy that moved the U.S.S.R. toward "a more pluralistic political and economic system in which the power of the privileged ruling elite is gradually reduced." Three, engage the Soviet Union in negotiations that exploited any gains achieved by the first two objectives.

Military Strength

"Ensure that East-West economic relations do not facilitate the Soviet military buildup. This requires prevention of the transfer of technology and equipment that would make a substantial contribution directly or indirectly to Soviet military power."

"Avoid subsidizing the Soviet economy or unduly easing the burden of Soviet resources allocation decisions, so as not to dilute pressures for structural change in the Soviet system."

"Minimize the potential for Soviet exercise of reverse leverage on Western countries based on trade, energy supply, and financial relationships."

"Permit mutual beneficial trade - without Western subsidization or the creation of Western dependence - with the USSR in non-strategic areas, such as grains."

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When is Ramadan in 2013?

Ramadan in 2013 will start on Tuesday, the 9th of July and will continue for 30 days until Wednesday, the 7th of August.
Based on sightability in North America, in 2013 Ramadan will start in North America a day later - on Wednesday, the 10th of July.
Note that in the Muslim calander, a holiday begins on the sunset of the previous day, so observing Muslims will celebrate Ramadan on the sunset of Monday, the 8th of July.

Ramadan 2013: Facts, History, Dates, Greeting And Rules Of The Muslim Fast

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What are the dates of Ramadan?
Because the cycle of the lunar calendar does not match the solar calendar, the dates of Ramadan shifts by approximately 11 days each year. In 2011, Ramadan began on August 1st. In 2012 Ramadan began on July 20th. In 2013, Ramadan is expected to begin on the evening of July 8th with the first full day of fasting on July 9th.
The ending of Ramadan is marked by the holiday of Eid ul-Fitr, which takes place either 29 or 30 days after the beginning of the month. On Eid ul-Fitr, morning prayers are followed by feasting and celebration among family and friends. This year Eid ul-Fitr will most probably fall on Wednesday, August 7.
What is the history of Ramadan?
Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. The term Ramadan literally means scorching in Arabic. It was established as a Holy Month for Muslims after the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in 610 CE on the occasion known as Laylat al-Qadr, frequently translated as "the Night of Power.
Observance of Ramadan is mandated in the Quran, Surah 2, Ayah 185:

“The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur'an, guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the new moon of] the month, let him fast it; and whoever is ill or on a journey - then an equal number of other days. Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship and [wants] for you to complete the period and to glorify Allah for that [to] which He has guided you; and perhaps you will be grateful.”

What are the daily fasting requirements?
During the month of Ramadan, most Muslims fast from dawn to sunset with no food or water. Before sunrise many Muslims have the Suhur or predawn meal. At sunset families and friends gather for Iftar which is the meal eaten by Muslims to break the fast. Many Muslims begin the meal by eating dates as the Prophet used to do.
This ritual fast known as, Sawm, is one of the five pillars of Islam, and requires that individuals abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.
To find the specific times for Ramadan fasting, click over to this helpful tool provided by IslamiCity that allows you to calculate prayer schedules -- including sunup and sundown -- by entering your city or zip code.
What are the expectations towards charity?
Charity is an important part of Ramadan. The fast emphasizes self-sacrifice and using the experience of hunger to grow in empathy with the hungry. During Ramadan, Muslim communities work together to raise money for the poor, donate clothes and food, and hold iftar dinners for the less fortunate.
What scriptural study do Muslims take part in?
Many Muslims use Ramadan to read the entire Quran or read the Quran daily. Many communities divide the Quran into daily reading segments that conclude on Eid ul-Fitr at the end of Ramadan.
Can non-Muslims participate?
Non-Muslims are free to participate in Ramadam. Many non-Muslims fast and even pray with their Muslim friends or family members. Non-Muslims are often invited to attend prayer and iftar dinners.
Those wishing to be polite to someone who is fasting for Ramadan may greet them with Ramadan Mubarak or Ramadan Kareem, which mean Have a Blessed or Generous Ramadan.
Should Muslims with diabetes fast?
Fasting during Ramadan is discouraged for patients with diabetes by the American Diabetes Association.

“In keeping with this, a large epidemiological study conducted in 13 Islamic countries on 12,243 individuals with diabetes who fasted during Ramadan showed a high rate of acute complications.”

However, the study says this was not conclusive. Many diabetic patients fasted with no complications. Patients with diabetes should work with their doctors to figure out a strategy if they choose to fast.
What is the 'goal' of Ramadan?
In general, the practices of Ramadan are meant to purify oneself from thoughts and deeds which are counter to Islam. By removing material desires, one is able to focus fully on devotion and service to God. Many Muslims go beyond the physical ritual of fasting and attempt to purge themselves of impure thoughts and motivations such as anger, cursing, and greed.
Do all Muslims take part in Ramadan fasting?
Most Muslims believe Ramadan fasting is mandatory, but there are some groups that do not. Pregnant or breastfeeding mothers, people who are seriously sick, travelers, or those at health risk should not fast. Children that have not gone through puberty are also not required to fast during the month Ramadan.

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Swashbuckling Spymaster

By JENNET CONANT

Published: February 11, 2011

In January 1940, William J. Donovan sat in a Manhattan radio studio plugging “The Fighting 69th,” a Hollywood movie about the cocky, mostly Irish New York regiment whose exploits during World War I had made Donovan a national hero and earned him the Medal of Honor. The release of the film, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, with George Brent as the rakishly handsome Donovan, put the then wealthy and well-connected corporate attorney back in the spotlight just at the moment President Franklin Roosevelt was looking for men who could help mobilize the country for war.

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William J. Donovan in 1948.

WILD BILL DONOVAN

The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

By Douglas Waller

Illustrated. 466 pp. Free Press. $30.

Roosevelt and Donovan could not have been more different, Douglas Waller writes in this entertaining history, and it was, at best, an uneasy alliance. They came from divergent backgrounds — one the scion of an old aristocratic family, the other a poor Irish Catholic boy from Buffalo — and barely acknowledged each other while at Columbia Law School. They were also members of opposing political parties, and the fiercely Republican Donovan, during a failed bid to become governor of New York in 1932, campaigned not only against his rival for the office, Herbert Lehman, but also against Roosevelt’s domestic policies, and ridiculed him as a dictator with “delusions of grandeur.” But the growing military crisis in Europe gave them a common cause.

In June 1940, Roosevelt tapped Donovan for a confidential mission to Britain. His assignment was to gauge the situation there, and determine the validity of Ambassador Joseph Kennedy’s assertion that the British had neither the will nor the means to beat back a German attack. Donovan returned to Washington with the optimistic message that Britain could fight on, but only with American military equipment and destroyers, and lobbied hard for aid, inspiring the columnist Walter Lippmann to gush that his findings “almost singlehandedly overcame the unmitigated defeatism which was paralyzing Washington.” More secret missions followed, and by July 1941, Roosevelt had become sufficiently impressed with Donovan’s sense of purpose and swashbuckling style to charge him with creating a new civilian intelligence agency, soon to be known as the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.), which would carry out secret activities abroad and analyze information related to national defense.

“The feuding fiefdoms” of the Army, Navy and State Department had little sympathy for Roosevelt’s new spymaster, but Donovan’s “most implacable foe” was J. Edgar Hoover, the ambitious director of the F.B.I., who resented the brash interloper’s meddling in his bureau, and who regarded him from the outset as a threat to his power. The central villain of “Wild Bill Donovan,” Hoover was a bachelor who still lived at home with his mother, obsessed over cleanliness and was sensitive about his height. Add to this that he was untalented at sports, earned his law degree at night school and got a draft exemption from the Army, and it’s easy to see why he felt competitive with the macho Donovan.

As the two rival intelligence chiefs aggressively expanded their empires, their run-ins grew more frequent. Waller, the author of several books on the military, writes that “it was not long before both men began keeping files on each other.” Hoover was particularly incensed that Donovan was close to William Stephenson, Churchill’s leading spy in the United States, who had long been an irritant to Hoover. He maintained a dossier filled with dirt about Donovan’s unseemly ties to British intelligence as well as his flagrant womanizing, while the O.S.S. chief accumulated reports that the F.B.I. director was homosexual.
Roosevelt, who liked playing his top advisers off one another, read Hoover’s “poison-pen memos” about Donovan’s unconventional, and often undiplomatic, methods, but refused to dismantle the fledgling spy agency. The president had been enamored with intrigue since his youth, and enjoyed reading inside information and scandalous tidbits from around the world, describing Donovan favorably to friends as “my secret legs.”

During the war years, while Donovan traversed the globe developing his spy network and becoming an influential player in international affairs, Hoover remained in Washington plotting and scheming. It was not hard to find fault with the overreaching Donovan, who was spread way too thin, and was seemingly willing to try almost anything; even his own aides worried that he jumped “at too many jobs and offbeat ideas.”
Soon, as Waller demonstrates, Donovan was irritating almost everyone, running roughshod over the military, and leaving a long trail of bruised egos behind him. By late 1944, some O.S.S. intelligence failures, like a bungled operation in Italy, began to leak to the press, and there was speculation — stoked by Hoover — that Donovan and his O.S.S. were on their way out.

None of this helped Donovan when it came to the most ambitious initiative he wanted Roosevelt to approve — a future central intelligence agency with himself at the helm. Usually one step ahead of his adversaries, the O.S.S. chief was caught short in early 1945 when his secret proposal was leaked to the conservative Washington Times-Herald, and savaged as a “super spy system” with plans for a powerful domestic police force on a par with the Gestapo. Donovan tried to counter the negative press with a media blitz of his own but the damage was done, and his hopes of making the O.S.S. a permanent postwar institution were dead.
Donovan blamed Hoover for the leak and instigated a full-scale criminal investigation to find proof. He remained bitter about the incident in later years, convinced the F.B.I. director sabotaged him in order to ensure his own position as spy czar. What Donovan never wanted to admit, however, was that in his own ruthless drive for power he had alienated too many powerful constituencies, and had left himself and his agency vulnerable to attack. When Roosevelt died, he lost his protector. The newly sworn-in Harry Truman, busy downsizing the government, did not think twice about abolishing the O.S.S. and dividing its functions between the War and State Departments. After his four years of dedicated service, Donovan was dismissed with a perfunctory form letter.

Yet Donovan did not have to wait long to see his dream of a central intelligence agency realized. Not two years later, with the onset of the cold war, Truman asked Congress to approve the creation of the C.I.A. Donovan hoped to be named director, but there was little chance that Truman would turn to him. He remained hopeful after Dwight Eisenhower became president. But in 1953 the job went to Donovan’s protégé, Allen Dulles. Instead of being proud that one of his own men was put in charge, and that the spirit of his organization would live on, Donovan was annoyed at being passed over for an underling.

This book is not the place to seek a comprehensive appraisal of the O.S.S.’s far-flung intelligence operations. Its many successes and debacles are only hastily sketched here. Waller is more concerned with the politics of personality, and the legacy of Donovan’s complex, larger-than-life character. As he amply shows, Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history.

Jennet Conant’s latest book, “A Covert Affair: Julia and Paul Child in the OSS,” will be published this spring.

Personal Note: I have many friends, thank almighty God, for small blessings. As I was getting my gear, my beach umbrella, my galoshes, my life-savers, not that silly device, they throw at you, just when you are trying to find the difference between low point and the high point of your life, in the middle of choppy waters, the mints, breath fresheners, with a hole in the middle, my fishing gear, a bucket of water, bunch of live baits, tackle, hooks, sinkers and a happy puppy, not too happy to be outdoors, today, as the sky is depressingly gray, with patchy clusters of dark, mean clouds, I get poked, literally, by my bosom buddy, the bosom part, applies to her, more than to me, "Youzi-youza" Mary utters in a very low, almost guttural tones, see, Mary ain't what she used to be, what with her age related, arthritis, asthma, overweight, both in her upper and lower torso and fading (in content) curly-top, "what the fuck am I seeing, an old, dilapidated, fat as a pig, big-buddy of mine, Sid?"
Frankly, I never felt so amused by a person with a tongue as acidic, to some extent, utterly with venom, grret me with the most kind words. More on Mary's other (self) expressions, later.
"Mary, you know, as well as yours truly, my fucking days are over. Not that a reference to my (past) glory-days ain't inspiring, I remain, yours truly (friend in need is friend indeed)."
After joshing and pulling each others legs and other unmentionable body parts, we settled down to a friendly discussion of life, afterlife, life in between orgies, and most of all, our current (book) reading (habits).
Mary got so excited over this ordinary, kitchen garden variety of lackluster topic, that she bolted from the scene of the crime, namely, a dock on the bay, and waddled thru small and large puddles to fetch her books that she forgot to return to the library in time.
I found this one, overdue by almost eleven months, most interesting.

...and I am Sid Harth

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William J. Donovan

Birth name	William Joseph Donovan
Nickname	"Wild Bill"
Born	January 1, 1883 Buffalo, New York
Died	February 8, 1959 (aged 76) Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, D.C.
Place of burial	Arlington National Cemetery
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	New York Guard United States Army
Years of service	1912 - 1916, 1919 - 1922 (State Guard) 1916 – 1919, 1941 – 1945 (Army)
Rank	Major General
Commands held	165th Infantry Regiment (World War I) Office of Strategic Services (World War II)
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Medal of Honor Distinguished Service Cross Distinguished Service Medal (3) Purple Heart (2) National Security Medal Freedom Award^[1]
Other work	U.S. Attorney United States Ambassador to Thailand Wall Street

William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was a United States soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. Donovan is best remembered as the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. He is also known as the "Father of American Intelligence" and the "Father of Central Intelligence".^[2]^[3]
A decorated veteran of World War I, General Donovan is the only person to have received the four highest awards in the United States: The Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, and the National Security Medal.^[4] He is also a recipient of the Silver Star and Purple Heart.

Biography

Early life

Of Irish descent, Donovan was born in Buffalo, New York to first generation immigrants Anna Letitia "Tish" Donovan (née Lennon) and Timothy P. Donovan, of Ulster and County Cork origins respectively. His grandfather Timothy O'Donovan (Sr.) was from the town of Skibbereen, being raised there by an uncle, a parish priest, and married Donovan's grandmother Mary Mahoney, who belonged to a propertied family of substantial means which disapproved of him. They would move first to Canada and then to New York, where their son Timothy (Jr.), Donovan's father, would attempt to engage in a political career, but with little success.
William Joseph attended St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute and Niagara University before starring on the football team at Columbia University. On the field, he earned the nickname "Wild Bill", which would remain with him for the rest of his life.^[2]^[5] Donovan graduated from Columbia in 1905 and was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity,^[2]^[6] as well as the Knights of Malta.^[7]
Donovan was a graduate of Columbia Law School and became an influential Wall Street lawyer.
In 1912, Donovan formed and led a troop of cavalry of the New York State Militia.^[8] This unit was mobilized in 1916 and served on the U.S.-Mexico border during the American government's campaign against Pancho Villa.^[8]

World War I

Donovan as a Major with the Fighting 69th in France in 1918.

During World War I, Major Donovan organized and led the 1st battalion of the 165th Regiment of the 42nd Division, the federalized designation of the famed 69th New York Volunteers, (the "Fighting 69th"). In France one of his aides was poet Joyce Kilmer, a fellow Columbia College alumnus. For his service near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, on 14 and 15 October 1918, he received the Medal of Honor. By the end of the war he received a promotion to colonel, the Distinguished Service Cross and two Purple Hearts (the full text of his Medal of Honor citation can be found further below).

Between the wars

Donovan in 1924, during his time in the Department of Justice

From 1922 to 1924, he was US Attorney for the Western District of New York, famous for his energetic enforcement of Prohibition. In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge named Donovan to the United States Department of Justice's Antitrust Division as a deputy assistant to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty.^[8]
Donovan ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1922, and for Governor of New York in 1932.^[9] Assisting Donovan in his 1932 campaign was journalist James J. Montague, who served as "personal adviser and campaign critic."^[10]

World War II

During the interwar years, Donovan traveled extensively in Europe and met with foreign leaders including Benito Mussolini of Italy. Donovan openly believed during this time that a second major European war was inevitable. His foreign experience and realism earned him the attention and friendship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The two men were from opposing political parties, but were similar in personality. Because of this, Roosevelt came to highly value Donovan's insights. Following Germany's invasion of Poland in September 1939 and the start of World War II in Europe, President Roosevelt began to put the United States on a war footing. This was a crisis of the sort that Donovan had predicted, and he sought out a responsible place in the wartime infrastructure. On the recommendation of Donovan's friend United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Roosevelt gave him a number of increasingly important assignments. In 1940 and 1941, Donovan traveled as an informal emissary to Britain, where he was urged by Knox and Roosevelt to gauge Britain's ability to withstand Germany's aggression. During these trips, Donovan met with key officials in the British war effort, including Winston Churchill and the directors of Britain's intelligence services. Donovan returned to the US confident of Britain's chances and enamored with the possibility of founding an American intelligence service modeled on that of the British.

OSS

On July 11, 1941, Donovan was named Coordinator of Information (COI). America's foreign intelligence organizations at the time were fragmented and isolated from each other. The Army, Navy, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of State, and other interests each ran their own intelligence operations, the results of which they were reluctant to share with the other departments. Donovan was the nominal director of this unwieldy system, but was plagued over the course of the next year with jurisdictional battles. Few of the leaders in the intelligence community were willing to part with any of the power that the current ad hoc system granted them. The FBI, for example, under the control of Donovan's rival J. Edgar Hoover, insisted on retaining its autonomy in South America.
Nevertheless, Donovan began to lay the groundwork for a centralized intelligence program. It was he who organized the COI's New York headquarters in Room 3603 of Rockefeller Center in October, 1941 and asked Allen Dulles to head it; the offices Dulles took over had been the location of the operations of Britain's MI6.
In 1942, the COI became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Donovan was returned to active duty in his World War I rank of colonel (by war's end, he would be promoted to major general). Under his leadership the OSS would eventually conduct successful espionage and sabotage operations in Europe and parts of Asia, but continued to be kept out of South America as a result of Hoover's hostility to Donovan. In addition, the OSS was blocked from the Philippines by the antipathy of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater.
For many years the operations of the OSS remained secret, but in the 1970s and 1980s, significant parts of the OSS history were declassified and became public record.
As World War II began to wind to a close in early 1945, Donovan began to focus on preserving the OSS beyond the end of the war. After President Roosevelt's death in April, however, Donovan's political position, which had thrived because of his personal relationship to the President, was substantially weakened. Although he argued forcefully for the OSS's retention, he found himself opposed by numerous opponents, including President Harry S. Truman, who personally disliked Donovan, as well as J. Edgar Hoover, who viewed the OSS as competition for his goal to expand the FBI's investigative operations internationally. Public opinion turned against Donovan's efforts when conservative critics rallied against the intelligence service that they called an 'American Gestapo.' After Truman disbanded the OSS in September 1945, Donovan returned to civilian life. Various departments of the OSS survived the agency's dissolution, however, and less than two years later the Central Intelligence Agency was founded, a realization of Donovan's hopes for a centralized peacetime intelligence agency.

Role in formation of the CIA

Donovan did not have an official role in the newly formed CIA but with his protégé Allen Dulles and others, he was instrumental in its formation. Having led the OSS during World War II, Donovan’s opinion was especially influential as to what kind of intelligence organization was needed as a bi-polar post-war world began to take shape. Although he was a force to be reckoned with, his idea for consolidating intelligence met with strong opposition from the State, War and Navy Departments and J. Edgar Hoover. President Truman was inclined to create an organization that would gather and disseminate foreign intelligence; Donovan argued that the new agency should also be able to conduct covert action. Truman was unenthusiastic about this additional authority, but Donovan's arguments prevailed and were reflected in the National Security Act of 1947 and the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949. In 1946, Truman appointed Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, USNR, as the first Director of Central Intelligence. This was an important first step but the actual creation of the CIA required another persuasive voice, that of Hoyt Vandenberg. In 1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter was appointed as the first Director of the CIA.^[11]

Post-war era

After the war ended, Donovan reverted to his lifelong role as a lawyer to perform one last duty: he served as special assistant to chief prosecutor Telford Taylor at several trials following the main Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal in Germany. There he had the personal satisfaction of seeing the Nazi leaders responsible for the torture and murder of captured OSS agents brought to justice. For his World War II service, Donovan received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest American military decoration for outstanding non-combat service. He also received an honorary British knighthood.
At the conclusion of the Nazi war criminal trials, Donovan returned to Wall Street and his highly successful law firm, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. He remained always available to postwar Presidents who requested his advice on intelligence matters.
In 1949 he became chairman of the newly-founded American Committee on United Europe, which worked to counter the new Communist threat to Europe by promoting European political unity.
In 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Donovan Ambassador to Thailand. He served in that capacity until his resignation in 1954.
Donovan's son, David Rumsey Donovan, was a naval officer who served with distinction in World War II. His grandson, William James Donovan, served as an enlisted soldier in Vietnam and is also buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Death and legacy

Donovan died from complications of vascular dementia on February 8, 1959, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. at the age of 76, and is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to him as "the Last Hero", which later became the title of a biography of him. After his death, Donovan was awarded the Freedom Award of the International Rescue Committee (not, as some biographies state, the "Medal of Freedom", a different award).
The law firm he founded, Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine was dissolved in 1998.
His home Chapel Hill near Berryville, Virginia, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.^[12] Major General Donovan is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

Awards and decorations

U.S. awards

	Medal of Honor
	Distinguished Service Cross
	Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters
	Silver Star
	Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster
	National Security Medal
	Mexican Border Service Medal
	World War I Victory Medal with 5 campaign bars
	Army of Occupation of Germany Medal
	American Defense Service Medal
	American Campaign Medal
	Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with Arrowhead device and 2 bronze service stars
	European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with Arrowhead device, two silver service stars, and two bronze service stars
	World War II Victory Medal
	Army of Occupation Medal with Germany clasp
	Armed Forces Reserve Medal with one ten-year hourglass device

Foreign awards

	Légion d'honneur (France) (World War I)
	Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (France) (World War II)
	Croix de guerre with Palm and Silver Star (France) (World War I)
	Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
	Papal Lateran Cross (Vatican) (Italian: Croce Lateranese)
	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester (Vatican) (Italian: Ordine di San Silvestro Papa)
	Order of the Crown (Italy) (Italian: Ordine della Corona d'Italia)
	Croce al Merito di Guerra (Italy)
	Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
	Grand Officer of the Order of Léopold of Belgium with Palm
	Czechoslovakian War Cross (1939)
	Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau (Netherlands)
	Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (Norway)
	Knight Grand Cross (First Class) of The Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant (Thailand)

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, 165th Infantry, 42d Division. Place and date: Near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, 14–15 October 1918. Entered service at: Buffalo, N.Y. Born: 1 January 1883, Buffalo, N.Y. G.O., No.: 56, W.D., 1922.
Citation:

Lt. Col. Donovan personally led the assaulting wave in an attack upon a very strongly organized position, and when our troops were suffering heavy casualties he encouraged all near him by his example, moving among his men in exposed positions, reorganizing decimated platoons, and accompanying them forward in attacks. When he was wounded in the leg by machine-gun bullets, he refused to be evacuated and continued with his unit until it withdrew to a less exposed position.^[13]

Footnotes

^International Rescue Committee Freedom Award
^ ^a ^b ^cCIA: Look Back … Gen. William J. Donovan Heads Office of Strategic Services
^CIA: William J. Donovan and the National Security
^William J. Wild Bill Donovan, Major General, United States Army. Arlingtoncemetery.net. Retrieved on 2012-08-27.
^Brown 1982, p. 56.
^Keehn 1910, p. 68.
^Phelan, Matthew (2011-02-28) Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed, Salon.com
^ ^a ^b ^cThomas A. Rumer, The American Legion: A Official HIstory, 1919-1989. New York: M. Evans and Co., 1990; pg. 107.
^Lawrence Kestenbaum, "William Joseph Donovan, (1883-1959)," The Political Graveyard, politicalgraveyard.com/
^"James Montague, Versifier, Is Dead," New York Times, December 17, 1941
^Clifford, Clark, Counsel To The President, A Memoir, New York: Random House, 1991, 165-66.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
^Medal of Honor recipients - World War I

External links

"The OSS Society".
"Donovan's Medal of Honor citation".
"Donovan's grave".
"The Donovan War Crimes Trials Library at Cornell University".
"CIA Kids - In the words of William Donovan".
"Spartacus Educational".
"OSS Blog".
"William J. Donovan". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
"FBI FoI Act Release: File#:77-78706 William J. Donovan".

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Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong, June 9, 2013. (The Guardian/AP Photo)

MOSCOW July 9, 2013 (AP)

The head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee says Edward Snowden has accepted Venezuela's offer of political asylum.

Alexei Pushkov made the statement on his Twitter account Tuesday. The message did not clarify how he learned of Snowden's purported acceptance, but Pushkov has acted as an unofficial point-man for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair.

Snowden, who revealed details of a U.S. intelligence program to monitor Internet activity, came to Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on June 23 and was believed to be headed for Cuba. But he did not board that flight and has not been seen since. He is widely believed to be still in the airport's transit zone.

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We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, drama, rational thought - yet, as he wrote nothing in his lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure.

The Hemlock Cup gives Socrates the biography he deserves, setting him in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with him as he himself dealt with the world. Socrates was a soldier, a lover, a man of the people. He philosophised neither in grand educational establishments nor the courts of kings but in the squares and public arenas of Golden Age Athens. He lived through an age of extraordinary materialism, in which a democratic culture turned to the glorification of its own city; when war was declared under the banner of democracy; and when tolerance turned into intimidation on streets once populated by the likes of Euripides, Sophocles and Pericles. For seventy years he was a vigorous citizen of one of the greatest capitals on earth, but then his beloved Athens turned on him, condemning him to death by poison.Socrates' pursuit of personal liberty is a vibrant story that Athens did not want us to hear, but which must be told.

Bettany Hughes has painstakingly pieced together Socrates' life, following in his footsteps across Greece and Asia Minor, and examining the new archaeological discoveries that shed light on his world. In The Hemlock Cup she reveals the human heart of the man, and relates a story that is as relevant now as it has ever been.

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The Hemlock Cup is launched in the UK, USA, and internationally - after ten years of research, five years of writing, this book investigates Socrates’story and his mission to identify what it is that constitutes a ‘good life’. To pull together the evidence for this account Bettany has travelled across Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. The latest archaeology from Athens and beyond is examined. Socrates’ key questions – what is the place of money in a society, what is virtue, can goodness be taught, what is the point of city walls and warships and glittering statues if we are not happy are as relevant now as they were 24 centuries ago. Enjoy!

Great news! The Hemlock Cup, Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life is now a New York Times bestseller and has also just been shortlisted for the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Prize.

We're really delighted with the press reaction to The Hemlock Cup and that it has been chosen as a Book of the Year in all the nationals and as Book of the Week, on BBC Radio 4. Please do give us your feedback (Socrates would have insisted on it), and please do spread the word if you can/are so inclined.

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"Her enormous energy and enthusiasm are infectious...No-one before Bettany Hughes, a highly accomplished communicator, has thought to weave Socrates examined life into so rich and dense a tapestry"

The Independent

"The Hemlock Cup is another vibrant and atmospheric work from this well-known promoter of the ancient world...this is an exciting book that puts the reader into the footsteps of Athenians of the 5th century BC"

BBC History Today Magazine

"Hughes' prose is the literary equivalent of CGI, re-creating for the reader a sense of the clamour and dazzle of the classical city that has rarely been bettered. Not only that, she is expert in knowing when to alter and vary her focus. Sometimes we are led by her through the streets of modern Athens, sometimes across an archaeological site, and sometimes down into the basement of a provincial museum, where rare treasures lie hidden. She spares no effort in bringing the world of Socrates alive. Hers is an ancient Greece that is authentically cutting-edge."

The Observer

"Bettany Hughes has done it again; she brings to life not only Socrates himself but the whole of Periclean Athens. Here is a work of dazzling erudition which remains hugely readable - what more can one ask"

John Julius Norwich

"No physical aspect of life as experienced by an Athenian man is left out...Hughes's expert attempts to make him flesh and blood, to fill in the gaps...teach us about the value of the real as well as the philosophical."

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"What we get in the Hemlock Cup is many books interlaced: a biography of Socrates; a gritty description of daily lift in Athens; a vivid history of the Peloponnesian War and its after-effects; and - as an unexpected delight - a guide to museums, archaeological digs and repositories of ancient artefacts, as Hughes takes us by the hand while ferreting out her evidence."

Walter Isaacson

"This is history, and historical reconstruction, exactly as it should be written...She (Bettany) takes readers through the torturous birth and early crises of Athenian democracy, and she's refreshingly even-handed about the resentment such a democracy might feel toward somebody like Socrates...Our author has made a series of canny and stylistic decisions, and they pay off...This tension between "the good" and the real is given full respect in this beguiling book, and the Socrates Hughes creates is ultimately a towering yet intensely human figure. He lives and speaks again in these pages: it's a singular accomplishment."

Washington Post

Hughes does a wonderful job of offering the reader a new and insightful look into Socrates' life and philosophy. THe writing is engaging and will appeal to academics and general readers who are interested in Socrates and life in ancient Greece

Scott Duimstra, Library Journal

The brilliant cultural historian Hughes (Helen of Troy) has again produced an intruiging and entertaining biohistory of one of the most important individuals in the ancient world, and of the Athenian society that condemned him to death for daring to question all received wisdom....she aptly conveys the continuing urgency of Socrates' devotion to the inquiring mind."

Publishers Weekly

"This, then, is not only a lively and eminently readable biography of Socrates the man, but also a vivid evocation of Athens, the city-state on the cusp of originating many of the greatest precepts on modern Western civilisation."

Margaret Flanagan

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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes – review

Bettany Hughes strives too hard to make the philosopher 'relevant' in this otherwise entertaining biography

- Tom Holland
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure does not tend to be rated as one of cinema's profounder treatments of the relationship between present and past. The story of two Californian slackers with a time machine who, for complicated reasons, have to assemble assorted celebrities from history in order to pass a high-school project, it is chiefly remembered for bringing Keanu Reeves to the attention of a mass audience. Classicists, however, will always cherish it as the only film ever to combine the music of Van Halen with Greek philosophy. When Bill and Ted embark on their quest, what should be their first destination if not classical Athens, and who should be the very first "historical dude" bundled into their time machine if not a bald-headed man in a sheet whom they persist in calling "Soh-kraytz "?

Even to metalheads, then, the philosophy of ancient Greece serves as something that is both primal and emblematic of civilisation as a whole. Socrates, in particular, the "lover of wisdom" who insisted that the most fundamental presumptions of his countrymen should be subjected to experimental investigation, and who ended up being made to drink hemlock for his pains, has always been admired as the very fountainhead of rationalism. Yet when it comes to identifying what he taught and believed, there is a problem, on which Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, rather unexpectedly, puts its finger. Socrates, transplanted to 1980s California, can only communicate with his abductors by gesturing and gurning – since Bill and Ted, it goes without saying, speak not a word of ancient Greek. Even the miracle of time travel, it appears, cannot serve to alter what is, for any historian, a most awkward fact: that it is impossible to be certain of what Socrates actually said.
Like Jesus and, according to Muslim tradition, Muhammad, he never wrote down a word. As a result, it is exceedingly difficult to know anything definite about Socrates as a historical figure. True, we have extensive accounts of what he said and did, and granted, these were composed much closer in time to his execution than were the gospels to the crucifixion, or the first biographies of Muhammad to the death of the prophet. Proximity, however, does not necessarily spell transparency. No matter that the historical Socrates does indeed seem to have patented the dialogue as a form of philosophical inquiry, the surviving accounts of his conversation are very far from being a documentary record. Most of them – perhaps regrettably, from the biographer's point of view – were composed by a man who just happened to be the most influential philosopher of all time, and a supreme literary artist to boot. Write about Socrates with the aim of disentangling the man from the myth, and it is almost impossible to tell where Socrates ends and Plato begins.
This, then, is the treacherous bog into which Bettany Hughes, with her new biography of the snub-nosed philosopher, has fearlessly plunged. She writes as a historian, and her focus, as she is careful to make explicit, is not Socrates's philosophy, but rather how it "evolved in his time and his place". So it is that the life of her hero becomes a peg from which to hang a vivid depiction of Athens in its golden age, from the pinnacle of its greatness to the abyss of its ultimate defeat. To this end, all the talents honed by years of making high-class documentaries about the ancient world are formidably on display. Hughes's prose is the literary equivalent of CGI, re-creating for the reader a sense of the clamour and dazzle of the classical city that has rarely been bettered. Not only that, she is expert in knowing when to alter and vary her focus. Sometimes we are led by her through the streets of modern Athens, sometimes across an archaeological site, and sometimes down into the basement of a provincial museum, where rare treasures lie hidden. She spares no effort in bringing the world of Socrates alive. Describing Athens amid the death-agonies of the Peloponnesian war, Hughes comments that it "must have been reminiscent of Kabul 2002-10: ragged, war-torn, veiled women in the streets with no husbands, brothers or sons". Hers is an ancient Greece that is authentically cutting-edge.
All of which only serves to emphasise the degree to which her book is frustratingly like Hamlet without the Prince. The skill and judiciousness with which Hughes puts together assorted fragments of evidence when writing about Athens is bewilderingly absent from her portrait of the man who is ostensibly her subject. To include great chunks of Plato's dialogues as though they were the ipsissima verba of Socrates himself is cavalier enough. Even more tendentious, however, is the degree to which everything quoted appears designed to make him acceptable to the sensibilities of her readers. That Socrates was a great man is not in doubt; but he was not a great man because he valued women, had his doubts about slavery, or believed in the redemptive power of love. Just as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure shows Socrates enjoying the local mall like any west coast teenager, so The Hemlock Cup gives us a portrait of him as a liberal Observer reader. Situated as it is in the midst of such a wonderfully rich and nuanced evocation of the city in which he lived, Hughes's Socrates ends up seeming, if anything, even more anachronistic than does "Soh-kraytz".
Tom Holland's most recent book is Millennium (Little, Brown).

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Reviewed by Troy Jollimore

Theexecution of Socrates casts a long shadow over Western history. The ancient Greek city-state of Athens, where Socrates made his home, was a tumultuous and frequently violent place, and the list of Athenians killed in political coups, internecine strife, and pointless foreign wars would be long indeed. But somehow the case of Socrates, who was convicted (by a jury of five hundred fellow citizens) and sentenced to die by drinking hemlock for what were, essentially, thought crimes continues to resonate in the modern consciousness. For Westerners with a sense of history, the death of Socrates continues to symbolize the insidious, ineradicable danger of democracy run amok. The event is both dramatic and traumatic, an original sin our civilization cannot seem to escape.

"Golden Ages are comforting," Bettany Hughes writes in The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens, and the Search for the Good Life. "We love the thought that in the dim and distant past we achieved absolute perfection, and that if as a species we did it once, we can do so again. We want ancient Athens to satisfy our yearning for a fair, ordered, beautiful society. We want to believe that ideologies such as 'democracy,' 'liberty,' 'freedom of speech' have, at some time, achieved a perfect form. But—even though Athens was unique, wonderful—that is laying too great a burden on both Athena's city and on history."

The Hemlock Cup offers an account not only of Socrates's death but also of his life and of the life of the troubled and turbulent society in which he lived and died. The choice of a double subject, Socrates and Athens, is in part forced on Hughes by the lack of accurate biographical data about Socrates, particularly his early years—a situation that is exacerbated by the fact that he himself chose not to record any of his lengthy conversations with his fellow Athenians and, indeed, wrote nothing at all. But it makes sense, too, given how closely entwined his life was with the life of his city. "My hope," Hughes writes, "is that by looking at the shape around the Socrates-sized hole, at the city in which he lived—Athens in the fifth century BC—I can begin to write not quite a life of Socrates, but a vivid sketch of Socrates in his landscape; a topography of the man in his times."

She is right on both counts: what she offers is only a sketch (and one that features a fair bit of assumption, extrapolation, and at times outright guesswork); but the sketch is entertaining and satisfyingly vivid. The Socrates that emerges is familiar from previous accounts, but is no less compelling for that. Philosopher, husband, father, soldier, lover (despite his notorious ugliness), he shunned the accumulation of wealth but had a healthy appetite for the pleasures of life.

Aboveall he was, or tried to be, a loyal and dedicated citizen. The very behaviors that irritated his fellow Athenians, and for which he was condemned—casting doubt on common standards and ways of thinking, engaging (and hence 'corrupting') the city's youth in searching conversations—were in his view performed in the service of Athens, with an eye to making it a more virtuous society.

The Hemlock Cup is a popular history, not an academic one: Hughes, whose previous work includes a biography of Helen of Troy, is not the least bit dry or stuffy, and she brings an appealing enthusiasm and capacity for delight to her work. She has spent a good deal of time in Athens, walking the streets and poking around in the ruins, trying to find spots where Socrates would have stood or experience echoes of what he might have seen or felt. "I have ground up hemlock," she writes at one point, "and it releases a nose-wrinkling sour smell. It also sparks a pain above your eyes and across the brain." (It is tempting to imagine that it must have taken a certain effort of will to resist the urge she must have felt to actually drink the hemlock.)

Elsewhere she provides vivid and evocative descriptions of ancient Athenian technologies, including the kleroterion, the "proto-computer" used to select jury members, and the water-clock that measured the time prosecutors and defendants had to make their cases.

Such details help us imagine Athens as it must have been in Socrates's time. But ultimately the book may be most memorable when it reaches past that historical era to speak to something more universal: the tendency of democratic societies to give in to populist fear and resentment and to seek out and destroy those free thinkers who challenge the status quo. "Had political tyranny in fact been replaced by tyranny of the mind? Athens was trying to shore itself up, to build and build . . . Shamed by their defeats in war, confused by the freedom their own political system gave them, the Athenians from around 415 BC onwards chose oppression over liberal thinking." It was not so much a golden age, then, but an age that is worth remembering and contemplating, not only for contemporary philosophers and historians, but for anyone who values the democratic ideas bequeathed to us by our very human and, in their way, very modern ancestors.

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Elizabeth Robinson's NASA Scandal

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Elizabeth Robinson, the woman President Obama has named to make the Energy Department’s oft-criticized contracting more efficient

, is leaving behind a trail of spending questions in her past job as NASA’s chief financial officer.
A Washington Times review of NASA inspector general reports finds the space agency struggled to achieve austerity under Ms. Robinson’s financial leadership

, as cost overruns grew sixfold from $50 million in 2009 to $315 million in 2012.

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“Cost increases and schedule delays on NASA’s projects are longstanding issues for the agency,” the space agency’s internal watchdog reported last year.
Ongoing changes in the agency’s mission also led to billions being spent on projects that were later canceled, such as the Constellation Program and the Ares V launch vehicle

that were designed to replace the space shuttle. Taxpayers spent an estimated $10 billion on shuttle replacement before it was scrapped in 2010.
The agency also has been dinged for smaller amounts of wasteful spending that provided some simple yet powerful symbols for taxpayer frustration.
Audits conducted during Ms. Robinson’s tenure as CFO uncovered that NASA spent an average of $66 per person per day for light refreshments at conferences, shelled out $1.5 million to develop a video game to replicate astronauts’ experiences and reimbursed employees $1.4 million for tuition dating to 2006 for degrees unrelated to their NASA jobs.
Ms. Robinson did not return a call seeking comment, and NASA, White House and Energy Department officials did not return repeated phone calls and email messages seeking comment on Ms. Robinson’s track record as NASA’s chief financial officer.
Mr. Obama nominated Ms. Robinson, a former White House budget official, this month to the job of Energy Department undersecretary for management and performance, filling one of the top jobs under new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. In her role, Ms. Robinson will be responsible for improving the management and efficiency of the department’s contracting and programs, including the much-criticized environmental

management efforts involving the cleanup of old nuclear sites, Mr. Moniz told employees last week.
The energy secretary emphasized that Ms. Robinson’s role was specifically to improve the department’s contracting, spending and program management. “Right, wrong or indifferent in terms of how we are viewed, we’ve got to pick up our game in terms of management and performance,” Mr. Moniz told employees.
Separately, NASA’s own website credits Ms. Robinson for her stewardship of the budget.
“Through her leadership, Robinson ensures the financial health of the organization, including responsibility for ensuring that NASA resources are effectively employed toward the achievement of NASA’s strategic plan,” the NASA biography for its CFO says.
NASA’s inspector general, however, routinely gave the space agency poor marks for efficiency during Ms. Robinson’s tenure. An audit this spring, in fact, found NASA didn’t even know how much it had spent on information technology security and couldn’t account

for all of its computer equipment because it was so decentralized in spending.
“While other federal agencies are moving toward a centralized IT structure under which a senior manager has ultimate decision authority over IT budgets and resources, NASA continues to operate under a decentralized model that relegates decision making about critical IT issues to numerous individuals across the agency,” the inspector general reported in June. “As a result, NASA’s current IT governance model weakens accountability and does not ensure that IT assets across the agency are cost effective and secure.”
NASA officials promised to improve the IT spending after the stinging report, but often have tried to justify their cost overruns by blaming the unique challenges of exploring space.
Ms. Robinson did, however, get good grades for record-keeping. The NASA inspector general said the agency’s financial documents were organized and complete — a marked improvement from before her tenure when inspectors said they often couldn’t audit the department because of problems with paperwork.
Although NASA’s effort to replace the Hubble Space Telescope with the Webb telescope has run millions of dollars over budget, the inspector general did credit the agency for spending a $75 million Recovery Act grant wisely to speed along the project and keep 450 people employed.
Still, NASA’s overall financial and contract management got poor grades in several audits during Ms. Robinson’s tenure. “The agency’s cost-tracking processes cannot account for all conference-related costs and that planners did not consistently conduct required cost comparisons of possible conference sites,” one report from this month concluded.
An overview of NASA financial management in September concluded, “Consistently managing the agency’s science and space exploration projects to meet cost, schedule and performance goals has remained elusive.”
A report from April excoriated the agency for awarding a $42 million contract for energy savings

at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, saying officials couldn’t verify the cost savings claimed by the contractor but nonetheless paid out the money.
Ms. Robinson will face equally daunting challenges at the Energy Department, which was battered during Secretary Steven Chu’s tenure for everything from poor security at nuclear laboratories to poor vetting of clean-energy loan recipients such as the Solyndra solar panel maker that later failed at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to taxpayers.

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Triangulum Andromeda•4 hours ago
We already know Obama has no idea how to select a professional as he picks an idiot every time.
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- mwg Triangulum Andromeda•2 hours ago
  Well he picks someone like himself - STUPID
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Masmani•4 hours ago
Everyone who screws America is rewarded by 0bama!
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- going1234 Masmani•2 hours ago
  Heck, don't you have to be a tax cheat to lead the treasury?
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- fastboat Masmani•2 hours ago
  Obama has no shame and he knows he can get away with just about anything, including those things bordering on, if not, outright criminal. The Republican leadership is afraid to go after him (they'll be called racists or undergo years of IRS audits) and Erica Holder is HIS man at the DOJ to make sure everything is always "under investigation" so they can't discuss it. But the investigation always dies on the vine e.g., Fast & Furious, Benghazi, AP records probe, IRS scandal, Solyndra, etc.
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jdbixii•4 hours ago
Education is a travesty because a diploma is mere license to experiment or practice. What is perfect, if practice makes it?
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301•4 hours ago
Cost overruns? It takes a lot of money for that Muslim Outreach program.
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johnthebeloved•4 hours ago
"Energy Department nominee struggled with financial management at NASA"
Well, ah'll be hornswaggled! You mean Hussein I would pick someone incompetent to head a Federal agency? Nawh, I don' believe it.
Get a grip, my conservative brothers and sisters, unless and until a majority of Americans truly desire a return to Constitutional America, that "shining light upon a hill," of which Jesus spoke, and Ronald Reagan invoked as an ideal upon which to focus, is nothing more than the dream that took thousands of years to accomplish, and died after a couple of hundred years. In truth, the collapse of the Constitutional United States of America began formally with the non-cuddly Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's Progressive Party, and has been pushed, pulled, cajoled, poked, and whipped into existence by his successors, the Progressives.
With such Marxist/Leninist/Chevezist/Castroist/et alia Commucrats as were voted into office in with Hussein I, TWICE, clearly those Americans who cherish the memory of the Grand Experiment are a dwindling breed, and will be utterly gone in another 15 years, replaced by the fearful, brainwashed minions of "Big Brother."
It remains necessary to add this caveat to all my comments: As some of you already know from previous comments by me, particularly the Commucrat trollers, and other Progressives, if you feel utterly COMPELLED to "Reply" to my comments, with mindless repetition of socialistic and oligarchic rodomontade and fabrication, you will simply have to wonder as to whether you caused me hurt, or anger, or to double over with laughter at your insipid, tripe (hint, certainly the latter likelihood), as I shall not honour such by responding. For any of my fellow conservatives who might wish to agree with me in a "Reply," do not feel slighted if I do not respond, for I no longer read Disqus messages, as they are 99% inane drivel and hate-filled, negative criticism.
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Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in Touraine, France. He was entered into Jesuit College at the age of eight, where he studied for about eight years. He was said to be in such delicate health that he was allowed to remain in bed until late every morning. However, he did study the classics, logic and philosophy. Out of all of these, Descartes only found mathematics to be satisfactory in reaching the truth of the science of nature. Descartes spent several more years in Paris studying mathematics with friends, such as Mersenne. He then received a law degree in 1616. At that point in time, a man that held that type of education either joined the army or the church. Descartes chose to join the army of a nobleman in 1617.
While serving, Descartes came across a certain geometrical problem that had been posed as a challenge to the entire world to solve. Upon solving the problem in only a few hours, he had met a man named Isaac Beeckman, a Dutch scientist. This would turn out to be a long friendship. Since becoming aware of his mathematical abilities, the life of the army was unacceptable to Descartes. However, he remained a soldier upon the influence of his family and tradition.
In 1621, Descartes resigned from the army and traveled extensively for five years. During this period, he continued studying pure mathematics. Then in 1626, he settled in Paris where he found himself constructing optical (eye) instruments. Finally, in 1628, he devoted his life to seeking the truth about the science of nature.
At that point, he moved to Holland. He remained there for twenty years, dedicating his time to philosophy and mathematics. During this time, Descartes had his work "Meditations on First Philosophy" published. It was in this work that he introduced the famous phrase "I think, therefore I am." Descartes hoped to use this statement to find truth by the use of reason. He sought to take complex ideas and break them down into simpler ones that were clear.
Descartes believed that mathematics was the only thing that is certain or true. Therefore, it could be used to reason the complex ideas of the universe into simpler ideas that were true. So, Descartes continued working in mathematics.
In 1638, La Geometrie was published. This work was responsible for making Descartes famous in mathematics history, because it was the invention of analytical geometry. Analytical geometry is basically applying algebra to geometry. Although this had been done before by other mathematicians earlier in the history of mathematics, Descartes introduced this theory about determining a point in a plane by pairs of real numbers (ordered pairs). This is known as the Cartesian Plane.
In 1649, Descartes was invited by the Queen to Sweden to work on mathematics. It is said that the Queen wanted to work on mathematics at an early hour in the mornings. Thus, Descartes had to rise early to reach the palace. Due to the cold climate, he developed pneumonia after just a few months and died on February 11, 1650.

Contributed by Lanetta Burdette

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http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html
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