Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louisiana's Passman was piqued at the leak because, he said, it would give "top-echelon people downtown more time to conduct their unprecedented pressure campaign for more money." Translation: he had hoped to sneak the cuts through the full Appropriations Committee next day, before the Eisenhower Administration got a chance to renew its all-out fight for an adequate aid program...
...board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...friend of Sherman Adams? Did Sherman Adams seek to secure any favor or benefits for Bernard Goldfine because of his friendship? The answer to both questions is no . . . I have never permitted any personal relationship to affect in any way any actions of mine in matters relating to the conduct of my office. If . . . I have in any way so conducted myself as to cast any semblance of doubt upon such conduct, I can only say that the error was one of judgment and certainly not of intent...
Prudence & Togetherness. At the very least, Adams' job requires political sagacity, and he has plenty of it. In his testimony to the House subcommittee, he referred to a 1956 White House staff meeting that he described as a get-together aimed at tightening general rules of personal conduct. It was far more than that. The meeting took place in the summer of 1956-the presidential election year-and Adams warned his senior staffers that some evidently improper requests had come to the White House from congressional sources. "We are all fair game," he announced. Adams feared that the Democrats...
Thus the storm lashed on. It tore through the editorial pages of newspapers all over the country, and it drenched not merely Sherman Adams for his imprudence-or notorious breach of good conduct-but President Eisenhower for his failure to stick to his own oft-proclaimed deep sense of public ethics. The editors, pundits and politicians knew much to admire about Sherman Adams-his efficiency, his devotion to the President, his importance to the working of the Government. But they could see and hear clearly that, to accommodate Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, the Eisenhower Administration had compromised a basic...