aide

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The diaries of an aide to former Chinese leader Mao Zedong can remain at Stanford University, a federal judge ruled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The aide said the home-boost provision is “part of the bill’s design to ensure housing ends up in the hands of people eventually.”

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

In 2014 the man who once headed China's vast security apparatus was arrested, and two years later, Hu's top aide was jailed for life for corruption.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“There’s a plan for this?” a young national security aide asks after a superior tells him to notify the Army Corps of Engineers to dig them out if a bomb hits the White House.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

A young White House aide, Egil Krogh, came up with the idea of parking sixty buses around the building, bumper to bumper, to form a makeshift barricade.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin