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President Eisenhower's loyalty to his subordinates is well-known. However, the furor aroused this summer by the liaison between Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine obscured another scandal of the Eisenhower Administration--the Flanagan case...
...close associates, Persons is "Jerry" to nearly all Washington, "Burt" to his family, and "Slick" to old Army friends. (There is a dispute about whether the "Slick" came from the stuff he put on his hair or from the smooth way he handled Congressmen as an Army legislative liaison man.) Where Adams was President Eisenhower's closest professional colleague, Major General Wilton Persons, U.S.A. (ret.), is one of General Dwight Eisenhower's oldest, best friends...
Irreplaceable. One of five sons* of a Montgomery druggist, Jerry Persons won an engineering degree at Alabama Polytechnic Institute ('16), served as a coast artillery captain in France during World War I, stayed in the Army while studying business administration at Harvard, and wound up as a congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School...
Retiring from the Army in 1949, Jerry Persons became superintendent of Virginia's Staunton Military Academy, enjoyed watching his cadets grow up "like a damned fine garden." But in 1951 Ike called again; Persons went to France as liaison man at Supreme Allied headquarters, became the go-between for General Eisenhower and the scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft...
Lodge's attitude, like the nation's, was a casualty of World War II. He saw action in North Africa and Italy as an Armored Force officer, wound up the war as a combat liaison officer (lieutenant colonel) between U.S. and French forces in Germany. He came back with six battle stars, the Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star for performance under enemy fire in Italy, and a permanently changed mind about the U.S.'s role in the world. Back in the Senate after the war, he supported reciprocal trade, foreign...