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...had. in contrast to its predecessor ciphony devices. was that it was neatly packaged in a single cabinet about two­ thirds as tall and somewhat fatter... ...s and controls on access to prevent theft of equipment and their supporting materials. this KY-l cabinet was in fact a three­ combination safe that co... ...of bits each second to describe and transmit these TV Ii also The KG-24 does it, and'n one fair! cabinet [ But thon ate oaJy 6 [V-l) aad 7 [V-21 _ ID_... ... they could do was to tell the Signal Corps about it, which they did. There they met the charter members of a club of skeptics (still BourishiDg!) whi... ...from the Dept. of Defense through whom the Director, NSA reports to the Secretary of Defense, md members from NSA, Army, Navy, Air Force, State, CIA. ... ...d meets irregularly, it does its buaineaa maiDly by circulating pmpoeed. pollcy papers among its members and having them vote for adoption. The USCSB ... ...izens in the post-Waterpte climate. In short, could we be trusted? An early action of the Carter Administration, theRfoR, was to issue a Policy llevie... ... pen:eive a need for. (€) s\ handful of people from the now defunct 0fIk:e of Telecommunications Polk:y (OTP) were transferred to a new organization w...

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...o save the secretaries who sit in the bu- reaus from a too rapid influx of members of Congress. This statement I by no means indorse; but it is undoub... ...e Secretary of the Navy. It was said that Lincoln, when pressed to rid his cabinet of Cameron, had replied, that when a man was crossing a stream the ... ...came Secretary of War in his place. But Mr. Cameron, though put out of the cabinet, was to be saved from absolute disgrace by being sent as Minister t... ...meron? Cameron was now gone, it was true; and in that way the whole of the cabinet would soon be broken up. As to Congress, what could Congress do? As... ...min- ister hither and thither by viva voce questions on every point of his administration. The minister sits safe in his office—safe there for the ter... ...ely, whereas the President must ultimately be charged with the execu- tive administration of the order for that suspension, which has in fact been iss... ...s none with reference to the individual States, reli- gion, education, the administration of the general laws which concern every man and woman, and t... ...n, do not at any rate blush for their old Presidents. But who has heard of Polk, of Pierce, of Buchanan? What American is proud of them? In the old da... ...t and present; and there is a special act, enabling the widow of President Polk to frank. Why it is that widows of other Presidents do not agitate on ...

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...n a clever speech in the House of Represen- tatives he denounced President Polk for having unjustly forced war upon Mexico, and he amused the Committe... ...as in the Legislature and Douglas in the lobby; and again in 1836, both as members of the Legislature. Douglas, a very able politician, of the agile, ... ...power under such circumstances greeted with general confidence even by the members of his party. While he had indeed won much popularity, many Republi... ... even among his friends,—even among those nearest to him. In selecting his cabinet, which he did substantially before he left Springfield for Washingt... ...mstances. It might indeed have been fore- seen that among the members of a cabinet so composed, troublesome disagreements and rivalries would break ou... ... might have been composed in a common opposition to him. As members of his cabinet he could hope to control them, and to keep them busily employed in ... ...and take full charge of them himself. At the end of the first month of the administration he submitted a “memorandum” to President Lincoln, which has ... ...that paper Seward actually told the President that at the end of a month’s administration the government was still without a policy, either domestic o... ...rity. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, he told Seward that the administration had a domestic policy as laid down in the inaugural address ...

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..........65 Andrew Jackson...........................69 Martin Van Buren.........................72 William Henry Harrison................83 James Knox Polk........................106 Zachary Taylor............................119 Franklin Pierce...........................123 James Buchanan........................132 Abraham Lincoln........................140...

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.........................72 William Henry Harrison................83 James Knox Polk........................106 Zachary Taylor.............................. ...ing inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies.... ... these essential purposes, and may en able every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his char... ...e Continental Congress for inaugurations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign off... ...now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated will in... ...ty is visible in the public countenance. The means employed by the Brit ish cabinet to undermine it have recoiled on themselves; have given to our na... ...entire confidence in the support of a just and gen erous people. James Knox Polk INAUGURAL ADDRESS TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1845 The inaugural ceremonies of... ... ceremonies of former Tennessee Governor and Speaker of the House James Knox Polk were con ducted before a large crowd that stood in the pouring rain... ...son Administration, he had a distinguished career as a Senator, Congressman, Cabinet officer, and ambassador. The oath of office was administered by C...

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...n Mexico, on his return home in a public speech at St. Louis condemned the administration in relation to the war. If I remember, G. T. M. Davis, who h... ...of the act of the last session of Congress. The first amendment desired by members of this House had for its only object to give bounty lands to such ... ... consider it a sufficient answer to all Democratic murmurs to point to Mr. Polk’s message, and to the Democratic platform. This being the case, the qu... ... President tells us that “during the four succeeding years embraced by the administration of Presi- dent Adams, the power not only to appropriate mone... ...even dollars and one cent. These four years were the period of Mr. Adams’s administration, nearly and sub- stantially. This fact shows that when the p... ...e of them have said. In relation to Mr. Jefferson’s views, I read from Mr. Polk’s veto message: “President Jefferson, in his message to Congress in 18... ...s opinion of Mr. Jefferson, in one branch at least, is in the hands of Mr. Polk like McFingal’s gun— ”bears wide and kicks the owner over.” But to the... ...atch that the question was narrowed down to Mr. B and myself, and that the Cabinet had postponed the appointment three weeks, for my benefit. Not doub... ...e before President Mon- roe for his approval, he put to each member of his cabinet this question: “Has Congress the constitutional power to prohibit s...

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...of violent discussion in Congress, in the press, and by indi- viduals. The administration of President T yler, then in power, was making the most stre... ... to the time of which I write, and for years afterwards— I think until the administration of President Juarez—the cultivation, manufacture and sale of... ...vement into the interior. General Taylor was not an officer to trouble the administration much with his de- mands, but was inclined to do the best he ... ...was almost indisputable and does not seem to have been denied by President Polk, or Marcy, his Secretary of War. Scott was a Whig and the ad- ministra... ...l party to acquire like popularity. The fact is, the administration of Mr. Polk made every prepa- ration to disgrace Scott, or, to speak more correctl... ...that the Nation had no power to save its own life. Mr. Buchanan had in his cabinet two members at least, who were as earnest—to use a mild term—in the... .... The navy was scattered in like manner. The President did not prevent his cabinet preparing for war upon their government, either by destroying its r... ...ntgomery, Alabama, as the Capital. The secessionists had then to leave the cabinet. In their own esti- mation they were aliens in the country which ha... ...through the war. The day after the battle I met some officers from General Polk’s command, arranged for permission to bury our dead at Belmont and als...