Word: talbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to Business Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott insisted two weeks ago that he had "no more idea than a jackrabbit" of resigning, despite the disclosures about his part-time business activities (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) After President Eisenhower read the 471-page Senate subcommittee hearings on Talbott, the Secretary resigned and the President promptly accepted his resignation, saying that it was the "right" thing...
...efforts to get action, the testimony showed, overbearing Harold Talbott even instructed Counsel Johnson to get a ruling on the propriety of a Mulligan-R.C.A. contract from Attorney General Brownell. But Brownell declined, informing Talbott personally that it was not within the Attorney General's province to take such action. Only then did Secretary Talbott cease in his efforts to round up R.C.A. for Mulligan & Co. Even his close friends granted that all this did not amount to saying, "My goodness, forget...
...airing of Talbott's techniques with R.C.A. sent Capitol Hill Republicans into a swivet. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender said expansively that Talbott is known "as the most cussingest man in Ohio-but aside from that I do not know of any other impropriety." There were other Republicans who thought that Talbott should be summarily fired; a Senate party caucus broke up in total disagreement about what should be done. Capitol Hill Democrats, meanwhile, were gloating quietly, smiling at Harold Talbott, while skillfully leading him-with substantial help from Talbott-to the chopping block...
...Final Decision." The final decision on what should be done about Harold Talbott was not to be made by the men on Capitol Hill. At the White House news conference, President Eisenhower said that "those parts of Secretary Talbott's official duties with which I have come in contact have been almost brilliantly performed." He pointed out that Talbott had not been charged with an illegal act. But he also said: "I do not believe that any man can hold, properly hold, public office merely because he is not guilty of any illegal act ... So what is now involved...
Then the President made it clear that he intended to write the next chapter in the case of Harold Talbott. "I am going to read the complete record of everything that I can find on this myself," he said, "and I will have to make the final decision on the basis of the ethics involved." When he went to his Gettysburg farm for the weekend, he had with him the 471-page record of the Talbott hearings...