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...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 to take over the office." Said Herter: "I appreciate your confidence in me, Mr. President." Said Ike, gripping him at the elbow: "You certainly have that." And when Herter got back to the State Department, he found waiting to greet him on the steps some 600 State Department staffers. Said...
Week's only sour note for Chris Herter was struck on the Senate floor when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland noted for the record that many were "fearful" about Herter's "resolution and firmness," urged Herter to meet the "challenge." Before the week was out Herter...
...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, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
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...
...State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State Robert Lansing, had been short-circuited by Wilson's reliance upon his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House. Then Special Consultant Dulles assured Secretary of State Herter that he, Dulles, would never get in the way. Said he: "I have never wanted to be an interloper, and I don't intend to become...