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...first time in Dwight Eisenhower's years in office, the White House last week was headed for a new pace and temper in its vital inner workings. Five days after flinty New Hampshireman Sherman Adams took to television (surprising some viewers with his warmth) to announce his retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...
...White House denied that such changes added up to a staff "reorganization." But with the new faces, and with amiable Jerry Persons replacing stern Sherman Adams, one White House era has surely ended and another begun...
...front page of half a dozen West German newspapers last week, the glum visage of Sherman Adams was matched by a portrait-no less glum-of a German bureaucrat named Hans Kilb. It was no accident. For six years husky Lawyer Kilb, 48, had served as appointments secretary and personal aide to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Last week West Germany's chief prosecutor slapped Kilb in jail "for investigative purposes." The charge: suspicion of corruption...
Asked about Sherman Adams, Salton-still affirmed Adams' "basic honesty" and added, smiling, "He never did anything for me that he shouldn't have." "You will notice there is no mention of integrity in government in this year's platform," said the Senator...
...Sherman Adams' departure from the White House is less a commentary on political morality than a tragedy of a man who spoke so often and eloquently of integrity that in time he came to see himself as the embodiment of virtue itself. When the spectre of transgression rose up, he alone...