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...only an expression of my nature." Another expression of Goldfine's nature came later when he tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch by admitting to reporters that his gifts, including hotel expenses of more than $2,000, a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug to Sherman Adams, had been listed as tax deductible by Goldfine companies-i.e., legally valid if some "ordinary and necessary" benefit or advantage flowed to Goldfine businesses from the expenditure...
...family life: "Better to have a linoleum rug so kids can bring their friends home than a Persian carpet they can't set foot on," philosophized Texas Pastor Fordyce Detamore. Each family, he said, needs a "social secretary...
...Have a Rug. As he spoke, Adams' cheery color, recently heightened by a brief New England fishing trip, slowly paled. His voice clipped on. "Early in the year 1954, Mr. Goldfine came to visit us, and he said to me, 'You ought to have a rug on that floor which is less shabby than the one that you have, and I would like to send you one. I'd like to get you one.' I said to him, 'I have no use for a rug of this size.' It is a rather large room...
...receive more than one rug? Adams: "I think there were a couple of small mats...
Through the years, as Bernard Goldfine gave, Adams received. Without seeming to recognize the implications of his relationship, Adams took advantage of Goldfine's offer of a rug, a few mats, a coat, some cloth that he had made into a suit. The hotel rooms were a great convenience, and so were the dining facilities at the hotels. These gifts were hard to refuse, partly because of friendship, partly because, as a careful man with his own dollar, Adams could not bring himself to refuse the lavish insistence of a big spender. And when Bernie Goldfine asked Adams...