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...furled umbrella and powerful cigar are familiar to every newsman in Washington. He is a regular participant in the lunchtime poker-dice games at the bar of the Metropolitan Club. His counsel has been sought-or pointedly ignored-by every President since William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson often talked out his problems with him during the Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz...
Nixon's game is poker, and in poker, he observed upon arriving in Miami Beach last among the candidates, "it's the fellow without the cards who does the strongest talking. I've got the cards." Nixon was so confident of his hand that he tarried on Long Island during the preconvention weekend. On Monday morning, he appeared at a naturalization proceeding in New York on behalf of his Cuban driver and cook, Manolo and Fina Sanchez. When he got to Miami Beach that evening, Rockefeller and Reagan were frantically and forlornly scampering after delegates. By this time...
...could also have pointed to his own colleagues. William Douglas played poker with Roosevelt and advised Kennedy on a wide range of matters, including the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev and the Cuban missile crisis. Chief Justice Earl Warren served President Johnson by leaving the bench to head the investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. Thurgood Marshall joined Vice President Humphrey's supporting entourage on a good-will tour of Africa last winter...
...from an impartial position." Making the same point another way, U.C.L.A. Politics Professor David Farrelly wonders "how impartial the court could have been in 1952 when it had to decide on the constitutionality of the President's seizure of the steel mills, if the Justices had been poker-playing companions of Truman...
...disagree completely with your article on The Gun [June 21], but I will defend unto death your right to say it with a rock, poker or some other hard object. FRED L. NORMANDIN JR. Forest Grove...