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MacArthur's career is traced in old film clips from the prewar Philippines (young Ike appears as a fresh-faced staff officer running messages for "imperious" Mac) through the Pacific and Korean wars. MacArthur's military accomplishments are somewhat grudgingly acknowledged, but to prove his thesis what Truman seizes on with evident relish are such anecdotes as that of the general who had thought MacArthur's father was the most egotistical and self-centered man on earth-until he met MacArthur himself...
...misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow to arch in puzzlement-including Dwight Eisenhower's. Leaving Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for a respiratory ailment that resulted in sinus and ear infections, Ike declared when newsmen questioned him about Johnson's statement: "I can't recall...
...never heard of it." Enormous Differences. Ike's bewilderment was understandable. The newsmen who heard Lyndon's remarks deleted the reference to "appointments secretary" for fear of libeling the three men who actually worked for Ike in that post-Robert Gray, Thomas Stephens and Bernard Shanley, who this year is running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey on the G.O.P. ticket. The fact is that all three were fully cleared by security agents before they took their posts, and by no stretch of anyone's imagination could any of them have been the man Johnson...
Actually, Johnson's reference was to a man who had worked faithfully for Ike during the 1952 campaign and was, indeed, designated by the President-elect to fill the post of White House appointments secretary. But, immediately after the election, Ike had all of his tentative appointees subjected to security checks. Only days before the inauguration, it was learned that the man had a homosexual history. He was quietly dropped from the presidential staff even before Ike took office...
...differences in the two cases are enormous. Unlike Walter Jenkins, one of Lyndon's closest confidants for a quarter of a century, the man dropped from Ike's staff had worked only briefly for him. Unlike Walter Jenkins, he never served in the White House, thus had no access to the kind of secret documents that Jenkins handled almost routinely. Unlike Walter Jenkins, who was given a slipshod security screening by the Secret Service after Lyndon became Vice President in 1961 and no screening at all after he became President, Ike's aide underwent a stringent screening...