Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...stayed in the Army while studying business administration at Harvard, and wound up as a congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School. During World War II, he moved up to major general, was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, did his job so well that Chief of Staff George Marshall refused...
Reorganized. Where Adams had only one deputy-Persons-Staff Chief Jerry Persons will have three. Oklahoma City Publisher Bryce Harlow, 42, previously Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
...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...
...were colleagues at the Yale grad school, and later on the history faculty at New Haven. "We saw more of the Labarees than any other couple, in New Haven or down at Nantucket; and in a way I was worried about having someone so close to me on my staff. Then, too, he's an historian, which makes four housemasters and four senior tutors in the field. But I certainly am happy we have...