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...happened to be the President. Because of Krock's integrity as a reporter and his power as the New York Times's chief man in Washington for 20 years, he had the confidence and antipathy at various times of such diverse Presidents as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1935 and 1938, and was nominated for a third, which would have been a record for a journalist. But he refused it because he was then a member of the Pulitzer advisory board...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
With few exceptions, the long line of Presidents right up to Truman took their job with a remarkable purity of purpose, sublimating their other appetites and seeking gratification from their service to the nation. Men like Thomas Jefferson appreciated what money could do, but they designed the presidency to protect it from the corruptive influence of wealth, and their years of service were marked by a modesty that they felt important to democracy...
...perhaps is no wonder that there is a new wave of nostalgia for Harry Truman. When he was in the White House he had a roll of 30 stamps that he had bought with his own money and that he licked and put on personal letters to the folks back in Missouri. The Trumans paid for refreshments on the presidential yacht when they used it on weekends. "If you can't keep the two separate, yourself and the presidency," Truman once said, "you're in all kinds of trouble...
...Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment] or cut bait...