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Ford took the unusual step of appearing personally at a budget preview session with reporters over the weekend, thus becoming the first President since Harry Truman to do so. Ford quoted Truman as describing the $70 billion budget for 1953, another poor year, as "the biggest headache I have ever had." The President added: "Harry, I hope you left some aspirin...
Trifles such as a deep freezer and a vicuna coat tainted the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations with charges of petty graft. So when one of President Nixon's speechwriters, William Safire, had an article accepted by the New York Times, he was advised by the President's counsel, John Dean, not to accept the $150 payment, as it might be construed as a conflict of interest. In his new book about the Nixon Administration, Before the Fall, a deadpan Safire-now a Times columnist-recalls his feeling at the time. "That was a good idea, I thought...
...born daughter of a retired British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby. Summersby, who later married an American stockbroker, denied the alleged liaison throughout her life, saying, "I am admitting nothing, mind you, except that...
Great Presidents who are still popular on the day they leave office make a very short list. Often it is not until much later that the public retroactively admires men like Lincoln and Truman, who were widely condemned by their contemporaries. The British political scientist Harold Laski had a relaxed theory about the elasticity of the U.S. presidency and the kind of Presidents accordingly to be sought. In times of crisis, as in the wartime presidencies of Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt, Presidents uneasily wielded the powers of dictators; authority that had been skillfully diffused throughout Government was concentrated...
...casts his spell over the Oval Office more than anyone except Lincoln is Harry Truman. A bust of Truman is just behind Ford's desk, where he can watch over the President's shoulder as Ford conducts the nation's business...