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Behind closed office doors and in conference rooms, the Administration's carpenters sawed and hammered away at the big beams of the Fair Deal platform for 1950. In the White House, departing Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford polished up the State of the Union message. Across the street, in the rococo old building that once housed the State Department, Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling scribbled on stacks of yellow foolscap, drafting the President's economic report. Down another hall, Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. roughed out paragraphs and charts for a draft of next year's budget...
...Reporter Truman talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...
...strapping man, and handsome as a juvenile lead, Clark Clifford was Harry Truman's nearest equivalent to a Harry Hopkins. He translated Harry Truman's ideas into bland, trudging prose, was the liberal wing's most effective advocate at the President...
...been making $30,000 a year as a lawyer in St. Louis. Living modestly by Washington standards, he had gone steadily into the red on the White House job. For the last 2½ years, a St. Louis friend whom Clifford describes only as "an older man of substantial means" has been helping him out. "He has sort of taken an interest in me since I started practice," said Clifford. "He felt that I was needed in Government and he told me that he would, as it were, subsidize me and to go ahead and draw on him for what...
...read detective stories, and Margaret, a photo fan, experimented with her four cameras, the President concentrated on swimming, sitting in the sun and taking long afternoon naps. He got up early, as usual. One morning he teamed up with his naval aide, Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, beat Clark Clifford and Dr. John R. Steelman at horseshoes, 21-9 (the President got two ringers...