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...magnificent stand of magnolias, Ike and his party relaxed. They were quartered in Bobby Jones's white-frame cottage. General Ike got in a few licks at his hobby, oil painting. In the evening, the women slipped downtown to a movie, while the men played bridge with Clifford Roberts, chairman of the club's executive committee, and shot the breeze. One morning Ike gleefully sank a birdie 2 on the short fourth hole, finished the round with a creditable...
Harry Truman had agreed to the policy switch from partition to trusteeship apparently without realizing what the switch meant. An anguished Clark Clifford had pointed out to him that it was political suicide. But by that time the deed was done...
Press Aide Charlie Ross watched with his sad hound-dog expression. Clark Clifford, preoccupied, scratched his chin. The conference ended...
...reads the drafts of his speeches to his wife in the living room of their 13-room house in Chevy Chase. "I'm the American public," says "Marney" Clifford brightly. "I used to be the average jury." When he is under the stress of big events, she surreptitiously changes his diet "to a sort of baby food...
...Right Wave Length. Clifford presents a serene front to the world and is outwardly patient and smiling at all times. But he is a serious man who gets to the White House early-a habit much admired by early-rising Mr. Truman-and stays late. One of the chief reasons for Clifford's rise has been his methodical practice of meticulously copying down the thoughts of the various men around the President, carefully sorting them out and then presenting them in a manner which suits Harry Truman to a T. As Mrs. Clifford proudly expresses it: "Clark...