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...observation fits the theory of government often used in Harry Truman's Administration of George III's former real estate. A good recent example: the association of Donald Dawson, still the White House patronage dispenser, and his two good friends, William E. Willett and Francis P. Whitehair...
While Willett was being chased out of public office, another friend of Donald Dawson's came scurrying in. Francis P. Whitehair is a bushy-haired, 51-year-old De Land, Fla. politician with a fat law practice in other states. Donald Dawson got him the job as chief counsel to the Economic Stabilization Agency...
...Whitehair gathered a staff of his old buddies around him. "I had to call on my friends," he explained. "I had to make doggone sure there were no Commies around the place." Entrenched there, he started looking for something better. When he went job hunting at ESA, Bill Foster turned him down flat. But by August, after some fancy footwork on the White House carpets, Whitehair was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy...
...Pentagon, Whitehair has acted like a smalltime politician in an oversize job. During business hours, he regularly keeps admirals with high-priority business stacked waiting outside his plush-lined office, while he leisurely hashes over old times with political cronies. An expert fence mender, Whitehair recently had the Navy postpone a minor ship-recommissioning ceremony, at Green Cove Springs, Fla., until he could get down there last week to harangue the home folks...
Florida. A bitter primary ended with dude-mustached Spessard Holland and rich Attorney Francis Whitehair as gubernatorial candidates. Wrecked were the Senatorial hopes of Governor Fred...