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Privately, bitterly. Dwight Eisenhower described it as "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking decision" of his 5½ years in office. The decision: to ask for the resignation of hard-bitten little Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration, and the only person of whom Dwight Eisenhower had ever said, "I need...
...Sherman Adams verdict was one of the most dramatic behind-the-scenes stories in recent U.S. political history. In a sense, as TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele reported this week, it had been inevitable ever since last June, when a House investigating subcommittee revealed that Adams had accepted a vicuna coat, $2,000 in hotel bills and other gifts from Boston Textile Wheeler-Dealer Bernard Goldfine. In turn, Adams had interceded for Goldfine with federal regulatory agencies. President Eisenhower's original decision to stand behind Adams imposed an intolerable double standard on Administration ethics...
...first caller was Meade Alcorn, who talked for an hour while Adams sat impassively, head thrown back, looking at the ceiling, nibbling on a stem of his glasses. When Alcorn finally finished, Sherman Adams agreed to leave...
...Maine goes, so goes Adams," quipped political funsters last week. And Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn's telephone jangled with morning-after calls demanding that it better be soon. California's Bill Knowland, running hard, but behind, for Governor, said Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams should resign "immediately." New York Senate Candidate Kenneth Keating added "and for the good of the country." Moaned Arizona's Barry Goldwater, running for a second Senate term: "The harm has already been done...
...look into the man's head. The President has done more worrying about this than almost any other matter lately. We don't believe that Adams did anything dishonest at all, but everybody thinks he was silly." Translation: pretty soon someone would look into Sherman Adams' head...