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Bernard Baruch, the adviser to Presidents, gave counsel from his seat on a park bench. Harry Truman liked to walk there. In recent years the park has been a rallying ground for demonstrators, and sometimes tear gas wafted through the tall elms...
Unlike the hero of Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, Egan Fletcher Jr. does not live in a tree house. Home is what passes for a mansion in Kornelius-Above-the-Shoals, the Southern town where his grandfather owns the cotton mill. Egan lives there on the eve of World War II with his mother and sister, a 14-year-old in itchy jodhpurs...
...noted that the case is different from previous ones including President Truman's refusal in 1953 to appear before the McCarthy Committee, a case cited by Nixon on Saturday. But in searching for precedents, Kaufman explained, "if you find something vaguely alike...
Nonetheless-as he is well aware-it was just such investigating committees that helped launch the national careers of Estes Kefauver, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon...
After the war, as the nation responded to the new threat of Communism, Attorney General Tom Clark persuaded Harry Truman to extend wiretapping to cases "vitally affecting the domestic security." This practice continued without serious limitation until 1967, when a Supreme Court decision limited the use of wiretapping without court warrants. The following year, Congress attempted to define the limits by requiring warrants in all cases that did not involve the national security. However, Attorney General John Mitchell went right on tapping the phones of suspected domestic subversives on his own authority in the name of national security-a practice...