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Physical peculiarities kept none of those gentlemen from the highest office, but some of them might have had a hard time getting there today. For Americans now even hold strong notions about the cut of a Chief Executive's clothes. Harry Truman incensed many button-down traditionalists by hacking around his Key West vacation retreat in criminally garish sports shirts. The spectacle of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the flamboyant cape and floppy hats that he loved to flaunt raised the blood pressure of old-school Republicans...
...turned out to be the fellow who had won the New Hampshire primary; if a Democrat won, he likewise happened to have finished first in New Hampshire. And then there were those New Hampshire debacles that, given a little hindsight and a lot of state pride, seemed significant: Harry Truman in 1952, George Romney in 1968 and Ed Muskie in 1972. Ergo. New Hampshire obviously was a prize worth trudging through the snow for. In 1975, a regional politican named Jimmy decided to jump the gun and trudge twice-that year and in the primary and presidential election year...
...over the decades. He researched Nazi oil targets for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in World War II, later directed the State Department's oil intelligence operations. Now Levy, 67, heads his own Manhattan-based consulting firm and has acted as oil adviser to every Administration since Truman's. Speaking at last week's TIME conference on the Middle East, he gave a sobering energy message. Excerpts...
...light industry-will be over the use of 100 acres of the old naval station that will be transferred to city control within a year. It includes the island's best stretch of beach and has the potential for a fine deep-water harbor. A portion, including Harry Truman's old winter White House, will be preserved as a park and historical site, but most of the naval-station property will be leased or sold to developers...
When the Greens refused to resume chemotherapy, despite warnings from Truman that Chad would die without it, a legal battle began. Chad was declared a ward of the state for medical purposes only. The parents retained custody, but chemotherapy was administered at state expense. Chad's health improved. When the Greens asked the state courts for permission to give their son Laetrile as well, it was denied. Last month the Greens fled to Tijuana with Chad, placing him in a clinic headed by Dr. Ernesto Contreras, who advocates Laetrile for its psychological benefits, rather than as a cure...