Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having Bernard Goldfine hung around its political neck was not all the Administration paid for convenience. The ethical standards applied to Sherman Adams now had to be applied to lesser Government employees. Last week's hearings revealed that two secretaries, one of them a secretary to Adams who worked within 75 feet of the President's desk, had received Goldfine checks, ranging from $35 to $75. They could hardly be fired, indeed, they could hardly be reprimanded-least of all by their staff chief, Sherman Adams, by whom Goldfine had done better. The Administration was on a hook...
...major strategic lines: 1) make Goldfine appear as a simple, innocent, underdog type being persecuted by a powerful congressional subcommittee, and 2) permit Goldfine to answer only those questions that related, directly and demonstrably, to his relationships with the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Sherman Adams. On paper, the plans looked good - at least to their authors. In practice, they exploded in some wildly improbable directions...
...money-making operator who shrewdly combines his TV-radio work with his publicity business. Tex already had sent one of his vice presidents, William Safire, to Boston for a three-hour interview with Goldfine to get "the feel" of his personality. In Washington, McCrary allowed that as an old Sherman Adams friend he had come at the beck of Lawyer Robb to help Goldfine on a basis of "no expenses, no fee - for free...
...script the words: "Glass of water." (In the hearing room there were no glasses, only floppy paper cups.) Again, McCrary inserted stage directions telling Goldfine when it was time to produce props for the subcommittee. Example: a gold Le Coultre wristwatch he received in 1953 as a present from Sherman Adams-a singularly unfortunate choice, since Goldfine had long made a habit of producing the watch (inscribed "S.A. to B.G.") to impress strangers, including those with whom he was having business dealings...
Serpentine Ally. At Shiloh, according to newspaper accounts, the good captain "stood erect in front of his men, during the whole engagement, but escaped all injury, except having about three inches torn from the left shoulder of his coat, by a ball from the enemy." General Sherman made him a lieutenant colonel and assistant provost marshal of Memphis, where, even in 1862, blockaded cotton was being feverishly and profitably traded to Northern mills. At Lincoln's command, Littlefield later organized one of the first Negro regiments. By war's end. General Littlefield's character, as well...