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Where is Averell's acceptance speech for the thayer award?
When did Harriman graduate from the Harvard Law School?
Isn't Harriman mentioned is several Heinlein stories?
Bush involvement with Nazis
This article seems very accusatory about Prescott Bush's financial dealings with the Nazis. It also underplays his previous career as a "humble tire salesman"
"Averell Harriman along with Prescott Bush financed the German Nazi's rise to power, beginning with multimillion dollar transactions to Fritz Thyssen. Their financial activities with the nazis continued during and after the war, upon which these assets were liquidated in favor of Prescott Bush. This was the beginning of the Bush family fortune. Prescott Bush went from a humble tire-salesman, to a multimillionaire."
The article on Prescott Bush has some conflicting information. Bush had some dealings with the Nazi's probably did not continue "after" the war since there were few nazis remaining in power. This article seems very biased.
Dspillmann 20:38, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
DSpillmann
After reading the Best and the Brightest I was impressed with Harriman's insight into the mind of Kruschev and his advice to Kennedy before meeting with him. It seems a shame that Kennedy listened to his brother rather than to Harriman before meeting with the Soviet Premier in Vienna.[CYoblonski]
fix problems, add bibliog
I fixed some POV problems and added full bibliography
Great Seal bug
I was astounded not to find the Great Seal bug mentioned. If you are in the Baltimore and Washington area, the National Cryptologic Museum museum is worth a trip, especially to see this replica. When I visited, the museum staff mentioned that this exhibit is a frequent photo opportunity for visitors from the former U.S.S.R.
Sadly, Congressman Hyde's remarks in Congressional Record have the date discovered as the date the bug was placed.
--Lent 02:02, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
Boxes for political office
He clearly held a lot of political offices, but only a couple have "continuity" boxes at the bottom of the page...the others should be added to the box structure...--71.111.229.19 (talk) 14:15, 25 June 2010 (UTC)