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Painful Facts. Last Aug. 20. Vice President Richard Nixon called on President Eisenhower with a painful message: nearly all G.O.P. Senate and House nominees insisted that Adams' continued presence in the White House was ruining them politically. A day or so later, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn added something to the Nixon message; major Republican financial contributors were snapping shut their wallets until after "the Adams mess" was cleaned...
Shaken by Nixon and Alcorn, the President ordered Alcorn to make a top-secret survey of Republican sentiment at a forthcoming national committee meeting in Chicago. Alcorn's finding: a near-unanimous opinion that Adams must...
...same time, such White House aides as Deputy Presidential Assistant Wilton B. Persons and Presidential Counsel Gerald Morgan were fighting hard to save Adams. But the pressures were too great; e.g., it took all of Alcorn's powers of persuasion to stop Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, from publicly demanding Adams' ouster. When Meade Alcorn returned from Chicago on Aug. 28 with his report to the President, Adams...
Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would...
...much too late for Fred Payne. He got swamped in Maine, and so did most of the Republican ticket. Next morning, fire-Adams long-distance calls poured in on Alcorn as soon as he sat down at his desk (TIME, Sept...