Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Managing the Team. In another, subtler way Clifford also made his influence felt. The President likes to boast that he has the best Cabinet since Rutherford B. Hayes.* At least two members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman's Cabinet works together without any audible bickering. The President thinks of them as a "great team." But a team is no good without a good manager. The nine Cabinet members work in as many different fields; there are bound to be serious differences of opinion. When the Truman...
...Clark Clifford, who has a passion for orderliness and quiet, solved that problem. Too many differences of opinion made it difficult for the boss to make up his mind. He got Mr. Truman's ear. The President began referring Cabinet members to Clifford, and between Cabinet meetings Clifford screened out what he thought the President should not hear. Cabinet members were grateful for this avenue of escape from Steelman's "coordinating." Clifford also set himself up as a barrier between the President and the professional politicians. They were not pleased...
Something for the Boys. Clark Clifford was not alone responsible for this new order. The White House in 1948 is a very different place from what it was in the turbulent Roosevelt days when nobody knew who was seeing the boss, let alone who was writing him memos. The Truman circle is narrower; and so are the men who directly serve the President. Besides Clifford, the innermost ring includes...
John Steelman, 47, plump, red-faced ex-conciliator of the Labor Department, who always had one formula for conciliating John L. Lewis: "Give in." After Clifford, his rival in the antechamber, Steelman comes nearest to having the boss's ear. He handles labor and economic problems...
...muscles, giving him advice, keeping the noisy crowd off. Sometimes it seems to other members of the Administration that they stand in the way of more important advisers. The President ignored a suggestion that he ought to take some of his key Cabinet members on the Caribbean cruise, took Clifford, Steelman, Connelly, Leahy and Vaughan instead. Truman wanted to relax, and with the boys he can relax. They understand him. He understands them...