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...found worthy of criticism with regard to Clark arose in a case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...
...Whitehair, who later became Under Secretary of the Navy, retained ex-Federal Communications Commission Chairman James Lawrence Fly. Whitehair and Fly called on Attorney General Tom Clark, asked him to drop the charges against Crummer, and gave him more than 60 letters from Crummer's clients. Said the Keating report: "It was improper for these attorneys to offer, and for the Attorney General to accept, argumentative materials ..." Besides, the subcommittee added, "the letters themselves were practically meaningless," since the point of the charges against Crummer was that he concealed his manipulations from his clients...
Pressure & Favoritism. After talking to Clark, Whitehair and Fly took the matter up with Assistant Attorney General Caudle. "We sure talked to these people a lot of times," Caudle related...
Last week, with Dan Kimball gone and Republican Robert Anderson not yet confirmed, Francis Whitehair was in his glory. (John Floberg, whom Lovett had intended to be Acting Secretary of the Navy, sat in his Pentagon office ruefully trying to laugh the whole thing off.) Asked whatever happened to that letter of resignation, Whitehair said blandly: "I do not know . . . But I'm not going to call the White House to find out. And I'm not going to call the White House every day to find out if I'm Secretary of the Navy...
...Whitehair heard the decision, but he did not propose to be bypassed. At first he refused to submit the customary letter of resignation to Truman, finally did so under orders from Kimball. Somehow or other his letter of resignation got lost in the White House, where some of Whitehair's well-wishers were still on duty. As a result, Whitehair's resignation was never accepted...