Word: hampshireman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in Dwight Eisenhower's years in office, the White House last week was headed for a new pace and temper in its vital inner workings. Five days after flinty New Hampshireman Sherman Adams took to television (surprising some viewers with his warmth) to announce his retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...
...Friendship. Then, in an even, quiet, almost confidential tone that rang with a New Hampshireman's twang, Adams began reading from a prepared statement. "I have tried, throughout my service in the Government of the United States, to treat everyone courteously and to perform any requests which have been made of me efficiently and in accordance with the rules which I believe pertain to my particular activity." His voice sharpened, and his wide-set blue eyes darted up and raked the faces of the seven subcommittee members: "Is there any member of this committee who has not made...