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Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.) Coronado, Calif...
...guests and staff tramped aboard his plane. There was his old friend and West Point classmate, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ike's Defense Secretary Wilson, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Major General Wilton B. Persons (ret.); and James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Ike swung up the ladder with a greeting to all hands, and at 5:55 a.m. his Constellation took off. Ten minutes later the press plane followed. Both planes carried double crews...
...Special Assistant: Major General (ret.), Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 52, brother of Alabama's Democratic Governor Gordon Persons and former head of Staunton (Va.) Military Academy. A long time Army spokesman on Capitol Hill and Ike's public-relations adviser at NATO, he will be Ike's liaison man to Congress...
...bell-ringing G.O.P. Representative George Bender, Humphrey has been a quiet big-money-raiser for Bender's Ohio Republican organization, but only the leaders knew him. It was no politician who proposed him to Ike as Secretary of the Treasury. The man who did: General Lucius D. Clay (ret.), onetime commander of U.S. occupation forces in Europe, now board chairman of Continental Can Co. Clay met and admired Humphrey in Germany in 1948 when Humphrey was chairman (appointed by then ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman) of the Industrial Advisory Committee to the Economic Cooperation Administration. On advice from Humphrey...
Attacking Stevenson directly, McCarthy cited Rear Admiral Adolphus Staton (USN ret.) concerning a conference the admiral had with Stevenson during World War II at a time when the Democratic candidate "had been assigned the task of enforcing the . . . law which ordered the removal of Communists from the radio aboard our ships." Staton's statement as quoted by McCarthy: "Stevenson said that he could not see that we had anything at all against them and stated that we should not be hard on the Communists...