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Said Major General Harry Vaughan (no West Pointer but a 1916 All-Missouri center at Westminster College): "I got a lot of letters from some proud mamas who wanted to know why their Johnny was being drafted and these football players were not. . . . My reply was . . . that they certainly look like draft dodgers. . . . They have spent two or three years being educated at Government expense at the academies; now, when the shooting is over, they resign...
...yacht's fantail, went swimming, loafed, read. One day jovial Crony George Allen persuaded him, against his better judgment, to take a fishing trip. To his delight he caught more fish than anyone else in the party-13½ pounds all told. Even better, Major General Harry A. Vaughan got seasick while the President did not feel a qualm...
...gang is large, loose-knit, amiable and loyal. Some members, like Judge Samuel Rosenman, serve only part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what Harry Truman calls a regular...
George's phone in the White House would ring. Matt Connelly would inquire: "You think that fellow we were talking about this morning is all right to appoint?" Afternoons, George and Harry Vaughan and Harry Truman splashed around together in the White House swimming pool...
Included in the group are eight men from last year's Varsity, and Coach Vaughan says that several of the newcomers are definitely Varsity material. Vaughan does not think that the men are just out for swimming to keep cool. He says, "They really want to swim and learn to better their stroke...