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rhowe
Fascinating stuff about Cummings the heroic reformer. One of the comments to the jackofkent pages leads to:
See also Richard Holbrooke’s 1975 article on the role of academic advisers in the Vietnam war, The Smartest Man in the Room:
https://harpers.org/archive/1975/06/the-smartest-man-in-the-room/
I had already been thinking of Cummings in relation to David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest path to disaster. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414062.The_Best_and_the_Brightest
Do we need a separate discussion thread on What is Dominic Cummings?