The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

” This remark made one week before the tumultuous May Day protests of the Black Panther trials was decried in editorials and speeches across the country. His junior year he turned down an offer of membership in Skull and Bones becoming a legend in Yale undergraduate lore. At the time of the invitation Lindbergh was the nation's best-known isolationist and the most prominent private citizen advocating to keep America out of the war.

Kingman Brewster Jr.