State Department

• “Frustrated by the bloated size of the U.S. delegation to the Geneva talks, and the fact that many of the most senior people opposed the stated goal of neutralization for Laos, he informed the State Department that he wanted an effective but relatively junior officer, William Sullivan, to serve as his deputy.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “Nothing propinks like propinquity! declared George W. Ball, senior State Department official under Kennedy and Johnson, pointing to the importance of physical proximity in cementing working relationships.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “It noted that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, or DEC, had designated a nearly three-and-a-half-acre undeveloped property situated at 858 East Ferry Street—smack in the center of the East Ferry neighborhood—as a class-two toxic waste site due to the high concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs and lead found there.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “In 1997 the city of Buffalo, which was hoping to develop such brownfields within the city to further economic expansion, had asked the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to investigate the site.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement released Sunday that first round of indirect peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians has been completed and that the first round of so-called proximity talks mediated by the United States was "serious and wide-ranging.”

  Articles

• “Meanwhile, two days after Bundys departure, Johnson issued an order, National Security Action Memorandum 341, aimed at enhancing State Department authority over foreign policy.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “Johnson, uncomfortable with the bang-bang style of Kennedy White House discourse, would move to the State Department policy planning staff the following January.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “In June, the State Department regularly dubbed unresponsive by the Kennedy folk drafted a high-priority statement concerning Berlin and sent it promptly to the White House for review, only to have it end up in the safe of Ralph Dungan, one of Kennedys special assistants, who then went off on a two-week holiday.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

• “They called the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to suggest firmly that, at the very least, a fence be erected around the property with signs posted stating No Trespassing—Toxic Waste Site.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

• “A line in the record of decision said that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation had sent a bulletin to surrounding residents and business owners in February 1999 alerting them that a toxic waste site sat in their midst.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

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