Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what he could to preserve and increase public respect for the integrity of the White House. If there was one Eisenhower accomplishment that Democrats and Republicans could agree on, it was that a stern White House code-far tougher than the code of congressional politics that Harry Truman brought down the hill from the Senate-had erased the petty stains of mink coats, freezers and influence peddling. This week Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, a tough, rock-like symbol and chief enforcement officer of the code, stood before it for judgment...
...Sherman Adams, the White House and the U.S. knew that things would never be the same again. Adams was the man who decried the influence peddling of the Truman Administration, the stern moralist who had banished Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble...
Congressional Democrats, battered for years by the corruption-in-Government issue, said remarkably little aloud but smiled at each day's news. They would not soon forgive Adams for such few but flinty campaign speeches as his January 1952 "Augean Stables" attack on Truman and the promise that Eisenhower would clean up federal corruption: "Here is the man to do it. The kind of people with whom he has surrounded himself is answer enough to that...
...public service while advancing his private fortunes, became a director of the Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of Caltech, a regent of Loyola University of Los Angeles, helped form the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, took up gardening, golf. First role in national affairs came when Democrat Harry Truman appointed Republican McCone to the Air Policy Commission, where he helped Thomas K. Finletter write the farseeing 1948 report on the need for U.S. airpower, Survival in the Air Age. He was appointed Air Force Under Secretary under Finletter in 1950, for 16 months campaigned tirelessly for a bigger Air Force...
...Political Wheeler-and-Dealer Harry Truman, arriving in France for a short vacation, for once in his life refused to discuss politics with waiting newsmen, modestly placed himself in the scheme of things: "I'm just a simple retired farmer from Missouri...