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...reciprocal loyalty between a President and a few inner-circle intimates has been demonstrated repeatedly. Harry Truman doggedly defended Major General Harry Vaughan, his military aide, despite the fact that Vaughan had accepted freezers from a perfume company seeking petty favors from the Government. Dwight Eisenhower stood by Sherman Adams, when his chief of staff was accused of similarly accepting gifts, though Adams finally resigned...
Many of our Presidents have had one man to keep them informed and another to keep them laughing; one for work, the other for relaxation. Harry Truman talked policy with Clark Clifford and played poker with General Harry Vaughan; Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams for the heavy duty and George Allen for the lighter moments; John Kennedy learned from Ted Sorensen and kidded with Dave Powers...
False Premise. Amid all the misstatements and warped points of view, even on such irrelevant matters as his role in Eisenhower's dumping of Aide Sherman Adams (see box), Nixon clung to the false legal premise that a crime is not really a crime if the motive is pure. He insisted he had committed no crime or impeachable act. Yet unconsciously, he actually admitted the latter. "As the one with the chief responsibility for seeing that the laws of the United States are enforced, I did not meet that responsibility," he conceded. That very failure...
That seemed to go for lots of people. Declared Mrs. Judith Sciarrillo, a Mashpee, Mass., housewife: "His calculated bid for sympathy made me glad to have Nixon to kick around once more." Said Cynthia Sherman, a telephone company employee in San Jose, Calif.: "I tried to look at it objectively, but he was trying to appeal to my emotions. He was saying, 'Here I am a broken man, and I didn't realize I was doing this.' I didn't believe that." Added L.B. Day, an Oregon Teamster official: "I don't feel...
...more moving moments in the David Frost interview with Richard Nixon came when the ex-President revealed how, while serving as Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President in 1958, he had been required to tell the embattled Sherman Adams, Ike's closest aide, that Ike wanted Adams out. As Nixon poignantly recalled it, after long deliberation Eisenhower agreed that Adams must leave but could not bring himself personally to tell him. Said Nixon to Frost, with great pain showing in his face: "You know...