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Signed on first page: Sherman Adams Clean text. Unclipped price ($5.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Book in good condition with discoloration on some pages. Dust jacket in very good condition with some chips in top and bottom of jacket on and around spine. Sherman Adams was an American businessman and politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of an 18-year political career that also included a stint as the 67th governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal.
Eisenhower adopted the military model, which emphasizes the importance of the Chief of Staff in handling all of the paperwork and preliminary decisions. With rare exceptions, anyone who spoke with Eisenhower had to have Adams' prior approval. Adams took his role as Chief of Staff very seriously; with the exception of Cabinet members and certain NSC advisors, all requests for access to Eisenhower had to go through his office. This alienated… Read More

Inscribed on front end paper by one of the true Giants of the United States Senate, William Fulbright. Inscribed: To Beverley Githens with appreciation and esteem Bill Fulbright Dec 1964Book in very good condition. Dust jacket also in very good with a few very small chips in bottom of spine, shows some shelf wear. Text clean. Unclipped price ($5.50). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover. Fulbright was an American politician, academic, and statesman who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1945 until his resignation in 1974. As of 2022, Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He is best known for his strong multilateralist positions on international issues, opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War, and the creation of the international fellowship program bearing his name, the Fulbright Program.

Inscribed on first blank page: To Dick Whalen With best regards, John J. RhodesClean text. Price unclipped (8.95). Protected by Brodart dust jacket cover.Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in near fine condition. John Jacob Rhodes Jr. (September 18, 1916 – August 24, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes was elected as a U.S. Representative from the state of Arizona. He was the Minority Leader in the House 1973–81, where he pressed a conservative agenda. e was the first Republican ever elected to represent Arizona in the House. Rhodes was elected, by acclamation, to be House Minority Leader on December 7, 1973, succeeding Gerald Ford when Ford became Vice President. But House Republicans became unhappy with his strong but low-key leadership and in 1979 he announced he would not seek reelection as leader. Minority Whip Bob Michel replaced him in 1981, though Rhodes remained in the House for that Congress- a fact which he later termed a mistake.