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Clark Clifford remembers the happy days of Truman's White House. He began the study for the unification of the armed services and worked closely on the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. There was ferment and achievement...
...itself, Anderson can sometimes seem almost too good to be true. The son of a meat packer, he is something of a populist, an anti-elitist and egalitarian. He has athletic dash and youthful charm that make many of his constituents think of a Midwestern Kennedy. But Harry S. Truman, not J.F.K., is Anderson's hero. He is uncomfortable with great wealth. Says he: "I identify with Truman, Humphrey and Mondale. All of them were poor, close to working people and came from rural backgrounds. It's tougher for me to identify with F.D.R. and J.F.K...
...attention; such tough-minded devotion to long views is, White decides, the stuff of history. At that time, he writes, "my judgment . . . would have cast Richard Nixon as one of the major Presidents of the 20th century, in a rank just after Franklin Roosevelt, on a level with Truman, Wilson, Eisenhower, Kennedy." Six days after White left the President, James McCord's letter to Judge John Sirica blew open the Watergate coverup. In evident distress, White writes: "I was to be brought down from Olympus to consider, with the President and millions of other Americans, the housekeeping of power...
Recent polls indicate that Nixon's popularity rating is low and going lower. But it is still not as low as Johnson and Truman were during war crises. And surprisingly few Americans favor impeachment proceedings. There is a mystique about the Presidency that retains its grip on the American people in spite of the misdeeds of the man in power...
...times was so persistent in being heard that Ervin amiably protested: "But you are not a witness." In his half-century career, Wilson has helped Barry Goldwater win a libel suit against Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, and successfully aided Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in resisting an attempted seizure by President Truman. He does not approve of most conservative Republicans because "most of them aren't conservative enough...