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...President answered critics of his White House balcony by saying that Mrs. Fillmore "almost got lynched" after her husband put in the first bathtub. Eighteen months ago, while escorting Novelist John (The Wall) Hersey through the presidential mansion, Truman retold the tale. White House Secretary Bill Hassett, who was standing at his elbow, gently told the President the awful truth...
...said the President, "what about that account I've read of Fillmore's stopping off in Cincinnati . . . ?" Said Hassett regretfully, "That's all in Mencken." "But I've seen a paper the American Medical Association drew up . . ." said the President. Hassett gave Mencken credit again. The President shook his head. "I'd swear those A.M.A. fellows didn't think it was a hoax...
...policeman falling to the pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue. He was the first photographer to get his camera into action. Not far behind him were Reporters Win Booth and Ed Darby, of TIME'S Washington bureau. Darby, who was returning from lunch with White House Secretary William D. Hassett, saw people running toward Blair House, leaped from Hassett's car and got to the scene just as the firing stopped. Booth, who was also on his way to cover the Arlington ceremony, was entering Lafayette Park in front of the White House when he heard the shots. He sprinted...
White House correspondents gave Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett a talking mynah for his 69th birthday present last year, and the black, orange-ruffed bird caught on fast. He learned to cock his head and cry: "What about the appropriation?" Hassett, an old newsman himself, soon taught the bird to squawk: "Flash! Get me the desk!" "Flash" became his name...
...proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry Truman requested); Presidential Aides Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately the amount Congressmen and Senators voted themselves...