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...foreign policy so that he could effectuate the Democratic policy he's following. The Democratic Congress freed him from guys like McCarthy and Jenner. who had the executive branch in their hip pockets. We have the fact that his Administration has slipped on things like Dixon-Yates, Talbott, and so on. These facts are enough to work on. They're enough because they detract seriously from the very things-his talents for appearing folksy, homey and highly moral-that are supposed to make Eisenhower so strong...
Back to Business Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott insisted two weeks ago that he had "no more idea than a jackrabbit" of resigning, despite the disclosures about his part-time business activities (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) After President Eisenhower read the 471-page Senate subcommittee hearings on Talbott, the Secretary resigned and the President promptly accepted his resignation, saying that it was the "right" thing...
...clear in my mind and conscience," Talbott insisted, "that my actions have been within the bounds of ethics." He still saw nothing wrong in writing letters on official stationery to solicit business for his partner, Paul Mulligan, an efficiency expert. Talbott, who cleared some $65,000 a year from Mulligan & Co. while in office, planned to get right back to work. Said he: "I'm going back to business and make myself a little dough...
...Final Decision." The final decision on what should be done about Harold Talbott was not to be made by the men on Capitol Hill. At the White House news conference, President Eisenhower said that "those parts of Secretary Talbott's official duties with which I have come in contact have been almost brilliantly performed." He pointed out that Talbott had not been charged with an illegal act. But he also said: "I do not believe that any man can hold, properly hold, public office merely because he is not guilty of any illegal act ... So what is now involved...
Then the President made it clear that he intended to write the next chapter in the case of Harold Talbott. "I am going to read the complete record of everything that I can find on this myself," he said, "and I will have to make the final decision on the basis of the ethics involved." When he went to his Gettysburg farm for the weekend, he had with him the 471-page record of the Talbott hearings...