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...detail man. So meticulous that he separates the meat from the potatoes when eating beef hash, he saved paper clips, and put three-minute egg timers on subordinates' desks to shorten telephone calls. But Mansure's fine eye for housekeeping details (which won the praise of the Hoover Commission) was not always matched by a clear view of the bigger picture. He seemed to have one standard for office efficiency and quite another for political shenanigans...
...fund was established in 1951 under the leadership of former President Conant, President Eisenhower, and Herbert Hoover, now honorary chairman of the fund's board of trustees...
...knows that the U.S. is fabulously prosperous, and expecting to be more so. The real news is that after three years in office the Eisenhower Administration has discovered for Government a new economic role that is as fundamentally different from the New Deal as Franklin Roosevelt was from Herbert Hoover...
...that the position taken by the Government is untenable." Other bookmen began to ask all sorts of dire questions. Would the New York Public Library, for instance, have to give up Washington's Farewell Address? And what about the Adams papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society-and the Hoover papers at Stanford University? Said Librarian William Lingelbach of the American Philosophical Society : "Every library as old as ours has materials that would be affected...
...enjoy the give-and-take of press conferences and to relax in the process. "It's not a strain on him," pooh-poohed Hagerty, "any more than it is on the reporters." The idea of submitting questions in writing (as newsmen did for Presidents from Wilson to Hoover) sent a shudder through the press corps at Gettysburg. "You might as well get speeches out of a guy," said Hagerty. "How many do you answer? The system never worked before, and I don't see why it ever would." Said Francis ("Stevie") Stephenson of the New York Daily News...