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...with Presidents by using agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather political information. The committee staffs report shows that Hoover willingly complied with improper requests from Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He gratuitously offered political intelligence to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, but both seemed unimpressed...
...people. Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck and the like could not have written good novels--much less great ones--about Jerry Ford or Dick Nixon. And any attempts in that direction have failed miserably--see Philip Roth's The Gang or any of the unmemorable fictional treatments of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, Trumans and Truman Capotes for proof positive...
...Institute for Medical Research into a university by adding a graduate program that gave no grades and conferred only doctorates. He staffed it with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired in 1968. Bronk served as a science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet...
Died. Clinton P. Anderson, 80, Secretary of Agriculture under President Harry Truman and a leading liberal Democrat in the U.S. Senate for nearly a quarter of a century; following a stroke; in Albuquerque. A former newspaper reporter and founder of an insurance company, Anderson was serving his third term as a Congressman from New Mexico when Truman, impressed by his detailed report on U.S. food shortages, offered him the Cabinet post; three years later, Anderson quit to make a successful run for the Senate. A member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy from 1951 to 1973, Anderson...
...Central I, The World's Longest Running Feature continues. (And I thought it a disaster when the Sound of Music lasted 2 years in my home town.) James Whitmore recreates his state role as F.D.R.'s heir in Give 'Em Hell, Harry and from all accounts does Mr. Truman justice...