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...history has a presidential relative engaged in such aggressively crass exploitation of a genetic coincidence. A couple of F.D.R.'s sons displayed a peculiar, almost prurient interest in their parents' personal lives, but only in books published long after Franklin and Eleanor had died. Margaret Truman's singing career might not have occurred without a father in the White House, but she earned painfully mixed reviews from it. F. Donald Nixon engaged in some murky financing on the strength of his brother's name...
...undertake special missions for the President like him. Clark Clifford, adviser to Presidents since Truman's day, says unequivocally, "Jimmy Carter has the best mind of any President I have known." Yet those like Clifford, and Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, who negotiated the Panama Canal treaty, have come from the Oval Office sometimes not quite sure they know Carter...
There is, of course, no handbook on how to be a successful President. Every Chief Executive has had to blend his special strengths into a formula for leadership. Franklin Roosevelt prided himself on his ability to charm and convince. Truman had a remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world...
...imposing demeanor (a Washington lawyer once said that listening to Clifford was like listening to God) contrasts with his relatively modest background. Son of a railroad auditor, he practiced law back home in St. Louis for 15 years before moving to Washington and becoming one of President Harry Truman's most intimate advisers-on law, politics and foreign policy. Clifford was a principal architect of the Point Four program, which provided economic aid to undeveloped countries, the Truman Doctrine, which helped keep Greece from falling to the Communists, and of the modern Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency...
Clifford likes to keep souvenirs; he still has the envelope on which he accurately jotted down in advance the outcome of the 1948 election, in which he helped plot strategy for Truman's victory. The Lance affair should yield a few souvenirs too-especially that 49 page opening statement...