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...grew up in Ames, Iowa, hero-worshipping Presidents of the U.S. He studied history at the University of Iowa and admired the achievements of Franklin Roosevelt, developed deep respect for honest, gutsy Harry Truman. He earned a law degree at the University of California, never dreaming that he would sit in judgment on an American President...
...from your wallet and preserve your business through better management, not to mention ways and means of hanging on to your marbles by being your own best friend. In addition, there are big books about three of the most durable survivors of the century: Rose F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman and William O. Douglas...
...year-old Kennedy Democrat had attended St. Paul's, the College, and the Law School during the height of the Depression. A labor negotiator with a hard-nosed reputation, Cox served in the Solicitor General's Office under Roosevelt in the '40s and on the Wage Stabilization Board under Truman...
...resigned his post on the Wage Board in 1952--gaining his first public notice and boosting his reputation for independence--after Truman reversed his decision on a wage demand by the United Mine Workers...
...salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...