Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consorting with thugs of Nikita Khrushchev's ilk? Since when did we condone oppression, murder, genocide and every other heinous crime known to civilized man by wining and dining the living symbol of tyranny? Why must we risk the integrity of our great nation by staking our Chief Executive to a game of poker with an opponent who is dealing from his own marked deck...
...Milestone Plantation was also the turning point-upward. The President still had his share of troubles, including "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking'' decision of all: asking the resignation of his staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...Treasury Secretary Anderson, a strong man who, unlike Humphrey, would not consider undercutting the President's program. To help the President sell his program to Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse...
...strongly oppose Duvalier, a Catholic himself but with close political links to the voodoo priesthood. When 1,000 priests, nuns and churchgoers gathered in Port-au-Prince's Notre Dame Cathedral to protest the expulsion order, Clement Barbot, the President's cold-eyed secretary and secret police chief, led a gang of bullyboys into the cathedral on a wild, baton-swinging charge, arrested...
...picked a lifetime employee named Robert Campbell Kirkwood, who had started as a stock checker right out of high school in his home town of Provo, Utah 36 years before. Trim, quiet-spoken Bob Kirkwood, 54, did so well at the job that he became president and chief executive officer in 1958, when James Thomas Leftwich moved up to chairman (Leftwich resigned three months...