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Within minutes after Sherman Adams called, Nixon's black Fleetwood Cadillac pulled up outside the White House. Nixon walked up a flight of stairs to Adams' office (he considers the elevator too slow, rarely uses it). Adams sketched the situation: the President had suffered a chill, had taken a sedative and was sleeping. Asked Nixon: Had a diagnosis been made? Not yet, said Adams, but there would be one by morning. Adams said the White House staff thought that the state dinner for Morocco's King Mohammed V should go on as scheduled that night and that...
...clock, Nixon was meeting with Sherman Adams, Attorney General William Rogers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and White House Aide Jerry Persons around what was to become the week's center of government: an oaken table in the corner of Sherman Adams' office. Adams briefed the group on the facts of the President's illness. Later, the President's doctors entered the room. Asked Nixon: "How is he?" The answer: improved...
...each conference, the involved department argued its case, Budget Director Percival Brundage gave cost estimates and advice, Sherman Adams offered pithy guidance, and Richard Nixon summed up the discussions. He used President Eisenhower's recent Oklahoma City speech-which laid down the rule that nonessential spending must give way to defense in Sputnik's day-as a broad outline. Did the proposed program meet the requirements of that speech? If so, it was approved. If not, more work had to be done. At the meeting on Mutual Security, Nixon repeated a phrase he has come to use with...
...nation's security. The job amounted to more than mere advocacy: Nixon was told to "develop an approach" to foreign aid and foreign trade. Nixon's self-confidence grew with added responsibilities. He never clears a speech ahead of time with the White House. Thus, even after Sherman Adams had dismissed the satellite race as an "outer-space basketball game," Nixon knew he was on sound ground in going to San Francisco and speaking out loud and clear on the deadly seriousness of the Sputniks. Said he later: "I thought somebody ought...
...being able to do what it thinks is right without worrying too much about public opinion; Nixon, as an aide explains, knows that "the people run the country, and if you don't know what the people think, you're in trouble." Nonetheless, Dick Nixon and Sherman Adams have a mutual professional respect, and last week, far from struggling for power, they were working together...