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Between 3500 and 5000 students are expected to take advantage of the set-up made possible by Assistant to the President John R. Steelman and the Division of International Exchange of Persons of the Department of State, according to the Institute of International Education Inc., which will act as coordinator of the project...
...kept him in continual hot water for the first year and a half of his term, Harry Truman now never makes a decision the first time an important problem is brought to him. The question first goes for study to his four-man staff: Adviser Clark Clifford, Assistant John Steelman (still a White House big shot despite his labor bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major policy questions, or tough ones...
Firm Stand. Harry Truman's advisers were divided. His "labor specialist," Reconversion Director John Roy Steelman, was plainly for appeasement. His crony, George Allen, the rolypoly RFC director, didn't want to be mad at anybody when the battle opened. But handsome, 39-year-old Attorney Clark Clifford, the President's counsel, ghostwriter and onetime naval aide, clamored to stand and fight. The Secretary of the Interior, huge J. A. ("Cap") Krug, agreed. So did Attorney General Tom Clark. So did the President...
Once he had made his mind up, the President ordered John Steelman to stay away; Mr. Steelman went on a hunting trip. Then the President made Clifford, Krug and Clark the members-and the only members-of his GHQ. He set out to take and keep the offensive...
From the Executive Mansion, Harry Truman could watch the bare trees on the White House lawn bending under the assault. But Mr. Truman himself was not bending. He was determined to fight his battle out at whatever cost. He had ordered John Steelman, his "labor adviser" and Lewis' solicitous friend, to stand in the corner. The President conferred principally with young Clark Clifford, his special counsel, who seconded Mr. Truman's assertion that now was the time to stand firm. That was the word Clifford passed along to Interior Secretary Julius Krug and Attorney General Tom Clark...