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...earned so good a reputation for the way he conducted investigations that when the Democrats took control of his reconstituted committee after 1948, he was kept on as chief counsel of an investigating subcommittee. At the 1952 convention, both men worked for Eisenhower's nomination. The Vice Presidentelect recommended his friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General Herbert Brownell resigned in 1957, Rogers, then 44, succeeded him. Rogers was best known for vigorous prosecution of antitrust cases and for his part in drafting the 1957 civil rights bill and pushing it through...
Help Needed. Few public figures in recent times have been so closely linked as Finch and Nixon. They first met in Washington in 1947 when the Presidentelect was a freshman Congressman and Finch was a congressional aide. It was the start of a political career for which Finch had long prepared...
There he was, a stolid figure in the rear of an open car, his eyes downcast, a study in dejection. He rode in dour silence to the Capitol while Presidentelect Franklin Roosevelt, sitting beside him, smiled that famous smile and waved to the cheering throngs...
...then there was the ticklish problem of Brother Bobby, 35. The Presidentelect wanted him as his U.S. Attorney General-and knew there would be an outcry against it. Jack Kennedy thinks crime needs major attention-not only juvenile delinquency but also labor racketeering (with particular reference to Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa). He also wants a good, hard look at the federal regulatory agencies, and feels that Bobby would make an able crime-busting investigator. But both brothers knew that there would be a fuss; Jack Kennedy argued that it would blow over. In private conversations he indicated a willingness...
...this changed the A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...