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At the White House next day, the President himself did his best to correct any impression the world might have that he was cool toward Herter. He mustered the entire Cabinet for the swearing-in ceremony, said that Dulles and he were one in considering Herter "the man best qualified...
There was no doubt that John Foster Dulles' illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor...
One day last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter...
After the President left to go back to the White House, Dulles chatted briefly with Herter and the others. Then Dulles volunteered a bit of advice to Herter that showed the personal qualities that the President found so invaluable.
"Where foreign policy is concerned, as you know, Chris," said Dulles, "I have always felt that there could not and should not be any interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's...