Word: dormann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dormann also began bumping into bona fide collectors, who were alarmed at his lack of expertise. A leading Lincoln scholar, Ralph Newman, who is a consultant to the Library of Congress, intervened at a time when the Johnson Administration was considering cooperating with Dormann. Newman warned the White House that Dormann "knew nothing whatsoever about the nature of the project he was attempting," and seemed to be using "our greatest office and name as a public relations device." As word of Newman's advice spread, Dormann discovered that neither Government officials nor university scholars would help him collect papers...
Undaunted, Dormann's board of directors pursued the project by allowing Dormann, who had become too controversial, to step aside while they searched for a man of some academic status. They selected R. Gordon Hoxie, 51, who holds a Ph.D. in political science and had served as chancellor of New York's Long Island University for four years. He also holds the unusual distinction of having had a branch of his faculty vote that he be fired as chancellor. L.I.U.'s trustees asked for his resignation in 1968. Hoxie helped to get Franklin National Bank Chairman Arthur...
English Novels. Whatever the merits of the symposium, the richly marbled and mainly unused library still stands as an expensive testimonial to Dormann's sense of grandeur. On a visit last week, TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil found that the sixth floor contains what was meant to be the presidential bedroom. Lacking Presidents who want to sleep there, it has been converted into a conference area called "The Teddy Roosevelt Room"; it has a moosehead. The fourth floor contains the library's microfilm collection; it occupies a single drawer and consists of copied George Washington papers. There are three...
...Lady's Room" have been fashioned from the mansion's living quarters. There is also a meeting room for "the President's staff." The second floor is more resplendent. It contains a "Founders and Trustees Room" with real books-mainly decorative leather-bound volumes bought by Dormann...
...possibility that the building might serve Presidents as a New York base. "The sooner that's forgotten, the better," he said last week. For one thing, he notes, security is almost impossible there. An outside stairway even leads from the so-called presidential bedroom to a dark alley. Dormann, however, is irrepressible. "Maybe that's a dream," he says wistfully. "But it's a dream that I hope some day will come true...