Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 28, 1961
THE difficulties of putting together a cover story such as this week's on General Maxwell Taylor involve many familiar obstacles—the limitations of national security, the wariness of bureaucrats, the imposed silences on Pentagon brass, the guardedness of friends, and the prudence of enemies. All these are known hazards, and TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele had little trouble coping with them, as he dispatched Hugh Sidey to explore White House angles, Neil MacNeil to sound out Capitol Hill reactions, and Military Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rinehart to report on the general himself.
Rinehart boned up by looking up old Taylor comrades in the...
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