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...know of a single case where bank failure has not been attributable to gross misconduct," said the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. Jaunty, loquacious James J. Saxon was in the limelight again and loving it, but what U.S. bankers saw was a glaring spotlight trained right on them. The occasion was the opening last week of hearings by Arkansas Senator John McClellan and his Senate Investigations Subcommittee, familiar probers of the nation's sinners, into a recent rash of troubles in U.S. banking...
More particularly, why had Johnson left Vice President Hubert Humphrey off the delegation? Fulfilling ceremonial functions in place of the President has become almost a prerogative of vice presidents. Was Lyndon deliberately trying to keep Humphrey out of the limelight? Or, as seems more likely, was he genuinely concerned about the Vice President's being out of the country at a time when the President himself...
...Americana. Though out of office, Churchill was seldom out of the limelight. And in 1946, speaking as a private citizen in a foreign country, he returned to his old role of Cassandra to issue a challenge that ranks as one of his greatest feats. At Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., Churchill warned the Western world in his "Sinews of Peace" speech that the time had come to close ranks once more against a threat as sinister as any the century had seen: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
...Into the Limelight. Sordid in its details, tragic in its personal consequences, and of unmeasured significance in its political effects, the story was splashed atop front pages all over the country. Ironically, the man around whom the storm swirled had been the most self-effacing, quiet and publicity-shy member of Johnson's White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going...
Despite his aversion to the limelight, Jenkins was exposed to its glare on two notable occasions before last week. After the Billie Sol Estes scandal broke in 1962, it was learned that Jenkins, on behalf of then Vice President Johnson, had spoken to the Agriculture Department about Estes during the previous year. Jenkins requested information about any decisions involving Estes' cotton-acreage allotments, which were then being scrutinized for irregularities. But his involvement was at most peripheral, and no evidence was ever presented to prove that Jenkins or his boss ever tried to pressure the department in the Estes...