Word: vaughans
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...cheery on the subject of his bumbling military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who stood dully behind him at the press conference. "Mr. President, do you contemplate any change in your military aide?" he was asked. I do not, said Harry Truman. When another reporter tried to get in a further question, the President said sharply that the committee hearing was held down at the Capitol: we will not continue it up here. And that...
...weeks of preparing a political barbecue pit for Harry Vaughan, the Senate subcommittee investigating five-percenters made no secret of its intentions-it was going to spit him, spin him over the fires of righteousness until sin dripped out of him like gravy, and lug him back to President Truman looking like a huge shish kebab. While no formal announcement was made, G.O.P. members implied that church bells would be rung, cannon fired, and flags run up on public buildings as soon as he was cooked...
...first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb. torso was encased in lashings of brass, gold braid, ribbons and other ceremonial military finery, and he eyed the investigating committee nervously, as if he expected each man to pull on a chef's hat and test him with a fork...
Herbert C. Hathorn, a former Agriculture Department administrator, who had testified to the committee that Vaughan had threatened to "get his job" if he didn't' help the Allied Molasses Co. out of a jam. The President's aide protested that he had never tried to influence a public official and even went as far as to wonder in earnest tones "whether someone impersonated me in a telephone conversation with Mr. Hathorn...
...ceremonial horror at the kind of minor logrolling and back-scratching in which every politico, including many a Senator, indulges as unconsciously as he blinks and breathes. Stern old North Carolina Democrat Clyde Hoey, who was running the show, warned them several times not to belabor "chicken feed" points. Vaughan himself maintained an attitude of outraged virtue, and spoke at all times with the heavy-breathing sincerity of a brush salesman talking through a locked front door...