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...Congress, Adams' acceptance of small gifts and favors from an old Boston friend (see Investigations) would have caused scarcely a ripple, his dutiful referrals of his friend to the proper federal investigative agencies would have been the mark of a Congressman taking good care of a constituent. But nobody knew better than honest Sherman Adams that the White House code was the underpinning of far more than an election platform. It was the base of the President's tremendous moral authority in the nation and the world. The code-and the authority-could be no more lustrous than...
...walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could do very much to take the sensation out of the story...
Even after his telephone act at FTC, Goldfine found three of his companies slapped with "cease and desist" orders on their label violations. Nor had the committee proved by week's end that Adams had in fact done his friend any good in any of his Government troubles. Be that as it may, Goldfine understood how the Adams friendship let him wheel and deal. "He told me," testified Goldfine's latter-day enemy John Fox, publisher of the Boston Post, in court in April, "that as long as he had Sherman Adams in his pocket he could...
...Just Friends. Adams had gone off to New Hampshire to deliver a baccalaureate address to Holderness school (for boys) on "the questions the Bible tells us shall be asked on Judgment Day" when the House investigators introduced into evidence photostatic copies of Adams' paid-up hotel bills. He secretly slipped into Boston for a three-hour lunch with Old Friend Bernie Goldfine. Then he flew back to Washington to draw up a 766-word statement to the House subcommittee, sent it to the President, who, Press Secretary Hagerty announced, "thinks that these are the full facts...
...Since your committee," Adams wrote the subcommittee's chairman, Arkansas' Oren Harris, "has chosen to make public the extent of entertaining of myself and my family on the part of an old friend . . . and has insinuated that because of this entertaining or this friendship Mr. Goldfine has received on my intercession favored treatment from federal agencies, I feel that I should set the record straight...