Willie Morris person
also: Mr. Morris, a young editor at Harper's Magazine
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“Mr. Morris, who happened to be a young editor at Harper's Magazine, to help him set the record straight of a humiliation event. He wanted him to write his side of the story of the Bay of Pigs because it made Dulles furious that the Bay of P…”
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that Alan Dulles shared with a guy by the name of Willie Morris. They were out for a casual stroll, chit-chatting amongst each other, and that's the line that he said to Willie Morris. Dulles, obviously the creator of American's intelligenc…
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Mr. Morris, who happened to be a young editor at Harper's Magazine, to help him set the record straight of a humiliation event. He wanted him to write his side of the story of the Bay of Pigs because it made Dulles furious that the Bay of P…
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Walking through the Georgetown evening with Willie Morris, he was perplexed to hear Dulles erupt at the mere mention of Kennedy's name. But there was a reason for that. Nearly two years after JFK's assassination, Kennedy still disturbed Dul…
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The book goes on and talks a little bit about that conversation and where Morris had come from. And it says, Morris was the most touted magazine editor of his generation and on his way to becoming the youngest editor of Harper at 32. Under …
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and David Haberstam. In the end, even Morris's expert hand, Dulles could not wrestle his manuscript into shape, and the old spook withdrew from his publication. By the time Dulles finally gave up, after months of toil, the article had gone …