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...reciprocal loyalty between a President and a few inner-circle intimates has been demonstrated repeatedly. Harry Truman doggedly defended Major General Harry Vaughan, his military aide, despite the fact that Vaughan had accepted freezers from a perfume company seeking petty favors from the Government. Dwight Eisenhower stood by Sherman Adams, when his chief of staff was accused of similarly accepting gifts, though Adams finally resigned...
...right to unleash his plumbers against Daniel Ellsberg. Typically, Lasky dwells at length on the well-publicized assassination attempts against Castro while Kennedy was President, but he notes only in a phrase that the CIA's deal with two Mafia figures to rub out Castro was struck under Dwight Eisenhower...
After winning a Bronze Star as an infantry lieutenant in combat during World War II, Johnson returned to become active in Republican politics. He helped manage Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 Alabama campaign and was named U.S. Attorney in 1953. Two years later, a week before his 37th birthday, he was appointed the youngest federal judge in the country. In June of 1956, Johnson and another federal judge ordered desegregation of the Montgomery transit system, extending the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision beyond the schools for the first time. In the years that followed...
Revisionism is starting on Johnson as it has started on other Presidents. We have learned about the alleged loves of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. More stories about Richard Nixon's back-room shenanigans have emerged. Indeed, some have wondered why there were no new revelations on how L.B.J. got that TV monopoly in Austin and made millions. There were also as many whispers about him and girls as there were about
...steps south and one encounters Nell Yates, a secretary in those premises since the days of Dwight Eisenhower. Warm, efficient, knowing, she belongs there. Jimmy Carter must be just ahead. But the Oval Office, a stride through the curved door, is more a museum than the center of a man's authority. One wonders if Carter is still intimidated by the legend of the office, or if he is determined not to live amid the symbols of Washington status...