Word: confidantes
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The swift interplay of forces began when the plane bringing Henry Wallace back from Chungking touched the runway at Fairbanks, Alaska. Roly-poly Samuel Rosenman, the President's speechwriter and confidant, who is now filling much of Harry Hopkins' old role, was already burning the long-distance wires...
No matter how close and amiable relations with his staff may be, the general is set apart, behind an invisible wall of rank and responsibility. If he is not to be completely alone on his side of the wall, he must have a special sort of confidant. This person must...
(2 of 2) young Straus ran errands for Teddy. He has always been a generous G.O.P. contributor; has been a Dewey confidant since 1936. He helped found the National Conference of Christians & Jews. George Zerdin Medalie, 60, Manhattan lawyer's lawyer, who gave Tom Dewey his first public job...
The first stop was at West Point (pop. 2,510), where a high-school band and a thousand curious townsmen clustered on the main street. Wendell Willkie, hero to millions in 1940, world-flying confidant of Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, climbed up on a truck. Slouched against the cab...
When Harry Hopkins, who comes closest to being the real Assistant President of the U.S., is not at work, the President has more visitors, more decisions to make, more troubles. Hopkins, besides being the one real Roosevelt confidant, holds a dazzling combination of official posts. Ill but indefatigable, he works...