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...reaching national consequences: if the Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that, in the Senate battle against his confirmation...
This pronouncement by then-President Harry Truman was tossed off in a tradition-breaching exclusive interview that he gave New York Timesman Arthur Krock during the 1949-50 recession, and it had some cool-eyed economic truth in it. But last week, with the economy in a Republican recession (mid-March unemployment: 5,198,000), politically touchy Harry Truman publicly disowned his rare bit of economic wisdom...
...Times next day, Newsman Krock, 71, told his side of the story: the 1950 interview was submitted to the White House before publication, and Truman's press secretary assured Krock that the President had pronounced the text "accurate in every detail." Furthermore, at his press conference shortly after the interview ran in the Times, Truman had tartly defended a President's right to give an exclusive interview if he felt like it. The committee's Democrats tried to block a Republican attempt to get Krock's reply in the record...
Cooled off by week's end, Truman admitted, after all, that the exclusive interview did indeed take place, wrote explanatory letters to Newsman Krock and Banking and Currency Committee Chairman Brent Spence...
...critical test. During the seven weeks he spent drafting the first address of 1958-probably the most important of his five years in the White House-the President and his works had been under heavy attack, and he knew the nation's temper. (Wrote New York Timesman Arthur Krock the day before the address: "The question is: Can and will he fully and firmly lead the U.S., and hence the free world?") Moving quickly to calm fears and answer questions, the President...