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Then reporters wanted to know about Presidential Assistant Donald Dawson, whose honor, ethics and uprightness had been questioned in the RFC scandal, and who had so far avoided the chance to straighten it all out before the investigating Fulbright subcommittee. Had the President asked Dawson to go clear himself? That, thought the President, .was the committee's business not his. "You don't intend to fire Mr. Dawson from the White House?" No, said Harry Truman curtly, gesturing at Dawson sitting three feet behind him. Dawson was right there, wasn't he? That was all there...
...Republicans captured Congress, he proposed that Harry Truman resign in favor of a Republican. Ever since, the President has called the junior Senator from Arkansas "that overeducated Oxford blank-blank." A legislator with a moral sense, Fulbright was offended as he dug deeper & deeper into the activities of the RFC. One day last week he rose in the Senate to discuss his feelings about the current standards of U.S. morality...
...Much of the evil of the world is beyond the reach of the law . . . As our study of the RFC progressed, we were confronted more & more with problems of ethical conduct ... How do we deal with those who, under the guise of friendship, accept favors which offend the spirit of the law, but do not violate its letter? "What of the men outside Government who suborn those inside it? They are careful to see that they do not do anything that can be construed as illegal. They operate through lawyers- men who are known as clever lawyers a cleverness which...
Wouldn't it be grand and glorious if some of pur RFC employees thought as much of their personal principles as they do of their personal principals...
...RFC Director Walter E. Cosgriff, Republican, agreed this week that he and the other four directors should all get out "to restore public confidence and employee morale...