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...administrations; of a heart attack; in Palm Desert, Calif. When his skill as a Washington, D.C., city commissioner and witty raconteur caught the attention of President Roosevelt, Allen graduated to the role of presidential confidant, brightening the high office with his folksy low comedy. He helped persuade Roosevelt to select Harry Truman as running mate in 1944, then later emerged as a member of Truman's own "Kitchen Cabinet." When his old friend Dwight Eisenhower, whom he had met during World War II, won the presidency in 1952, the affable-and durable -Allen became Ike's frequent golfing...
...Richardson chooses the prosecutor, the investigation will be doomed from the start," Tribe said. He added that he was strongly in favor of a special Congressional committee to select the investigation members...
...figure and landscape styles, different qualities of line and shade, and images drawn from the Old Masters, Hollywood, or city streets. Juxtaposing all these sources and qualities, Steinberg shows himself a bricoleur in the finest sense -- the artist who filters through the refuse heaps of other arts to select parts for his own strange constructions...
...comparison with his predecessor, Bok moved swiftly to fill the vacant position. McGeorge Bundy resigned the post in December 1960 to join the Kennedy Administration, but it took President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28 18 months to select a new dean...
...economic planners were in any way tainted. Yet for the most part the President has been ill-served by the type of men he has chosen to work with him. Throughout his presidency one of his greatest weaknesses has been his inability to attract, or his unwillingness to select, men of depth and vision. He has surrounded himself in the White House with practical men whose priority qualification is loyalty. With some exceptions, they tend to be manipulators, managers and protectors rather than independent-minded advisers. They get things done?and the means do not seem to matter...