Evening star., 1953-01-18

planned the whole Normandy in
vasion in eight pages" the Presi-
dent-elect snapped.
Then there was the story of the
newly appointed staff member who
showed up at 8 o'clock only to
be told that the boss had been
calling for him for 20 minutes.
The Humon Side
And there was the human side
of the story, too-how Ike, at an
informal gathering in his hotel
Office, took it upon himself to put
a little wallf1ower at ease and
how he ended up spinning yarns
to a circle of Office workers who
sat on the floor at his feet.
Such legends are inevitable, and
often are built up around men un-
worthy of the legends. The worth
of the President-elect was proved
in the harder news that had come
out of the Commodore in the in
terregum period.
There had been much specula-
ton about him just after his elec-
ton. Was he Taft's man? Or
was he Dewey's man? Such ques-
tions have gone out of style; he
has proved himself Ike's man and
no one else's.
Political Expediency
Not that the PreSident-electr re-
fused to bow from time to time
to political expediency. He could
have fought Senator Taft to the
bitter end over patronage-but de-
cided not to. And politics showed
through in some of his political
appointments. But it seemed the
politically expedient steps that
were taken, or the politically grace
full appointments that were made,
always were tempered with a feel
ing for governmental efficiency,
For instance, there was the bow
Mr.. Eisenhower made to Senator
Byrd of Virginia, whose attitude
during the campaign let his State
slip into the Republican column.
The President-elect named Demo-
crat T. Coleman Andrews of Rich
mond to be internal revenue
commissioner. But Mr.. Andrews is
not just politician; he is an
accountant.
Eminent Georgia Lawyer
And when the general rewarded
the Southern Republicans who
gave him so much help in Novem-
Der, he did not just put an old
party hack into an unfamiliar Job.
He selected Ebert Tuttle, head of
the Georgia Republicans, to be
general counsel of the Treasury.
Mr.. Tuttle is one of Atlanta's most
eminent lawyers. asz
Even in the politics-ridden Post
Office Department, a recent ap-
pointment made sense. His choice
for Deputy Postmaster General
was Cleveland railroadman,
Charles R. Hook, jr., who has had
broad experience in the two things
that make the Post Office tick
transportation and personnel.
Probably the most eminent-and
non-political-of his appointees
was DR.. James Bryant Conant to
be High Commissioner to Germany.
DR.. Conant, long a scientific main
stay of the Government, quit as
president of Harvard to take the
job.
Some of the new Presidents
appointments might conceivably
lay him open to charge of "Gov-
errment by crony." But just as
it was a new type of Government
that was shaping up, so it was a
new type of crony. The equivalent
to Battery D in President-elect
EiSenhower'S case were such men
as Gen. Lucius Clay, a close un-
official adviser; Gen. Walter Bedell
Smith, new Undersecretary of
State, and Maj. Gen. Wilton Per-
sons, legislative liaison man. There
was even difference in the sine
cure of military aide. Replacing
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan was
1t. Col. Robert Schulz, one of
Ike's Army aides and a profess
Sional soldier to boot.