Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Testifying in the Billie Sol Estes investigation, former Agriculture Department Official Emery ("Red") Jacobs spoke a classic bit of bureaucratese. "The state to which the situation has been definitized," he said, "is uncertain...
Witness Jacobs, who was ousted from the department on charges that he had accepted financial favors from Billie Sol, had a confusing way with words. At one point he apologetically confided to the Senators that "my lucidity doesn't quite equal my ambiguity." But one thing came through quite, clearly. Jacobs blamed Murphy for the basic decision that made Billie Sol's extensive land and cotton-allotment shenanigans possible. Also pointing a finger at Murphy was Witness John Bagwell, the Agriculture Department's general counsel...
...after Jacobs testified that Freeman's executive assistant, Thomas R. Hughes, had been in on department discussions of the Estes case as early as January. Hughes denied it at once, but Jacobs had at least raised some question about previous evidence that Freeman knew nothing of the Billie Sol mess until late March...
...that I shall appoint to public office men of unquestioned honesty and integrity ... I made some mistakes in my appointments before, but I will not make the same mistakes the second time. Truman had his Harry Vaughan, Eisenhower had his Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, Kennedy has his Billie Sol Estes, and I had some myself...
...opponents tried to tag him with his friendship with Billie Sol Estes. Billie Sol and Clement, both named among the Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Outstanding Young Men" of 1953, became pretty good buddies: Clement named Billie Sol an honorary colonel on the Governor's staff; Billie Sol cut Clement in on a couple of financial deals. But that didn't seem to matter. The people of Tennessee apparently just love to hear Frank Clement talk. And so does...