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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-13

GtEH NO. WUNStof
Mr.. Hagerty-All right now
the Governor CMr. Adams)
has sent the following letter to
Congressman Harris. >.
@. / haven't got to the bot
tom Of this page, but he seems
to be going into other matters
without saying whether Mr..
Goldfine did pay his bills
A. think he did. Mary.
@. missing words (indicate
that Gov. Adams stayed In
many different rooms on many
different floors, ranging in price
from 81 to 65 bucks a day,
How could he have thought
this was a continuing suite?
A. Well, all / know is that
it was his understanding, and
it was not until after the rec
ords were subpoenaed that he
learned Mr.. Goldfine did not
then maintain an apartment
on a continuing basis.
O. Is there any possibility we
could see the Governor or
something like that? The
President is available at press
conferences.
A. He is sending this letter
to Mr.. Harris, and / am giving
1t out.
q. Can We see him to ques-
ton him?
A. He is sending this letter
to Mr.. Harris, and I am giving
it out.
@. Your answer is No. is that
It?
A. It's my answer. Sarah.
Q. Did Gov. Adams tell you
that he did not want to have
a press conference?
A. He is sending this letter
to Mr.. Harris, and I am giving
1t out.
@. We can accept that letter
as No, can't we?
A. If you so desire.
Q. We are not going to gel
one.
A. That's right
@. How much money doe,
Gov Adams make?
A. What do you mean?
@. What's his salary?
A. $22,500.
@. What funds does thai
come out Of?
A. What funds does it come
out of?
Q. Or is it paid out of thu
Presidents special fund?
A, I don't know what fund.
mine are paid out of.
@, "a White House aide)
Jim, it comes out of the White
House appropriation. Regular
White House appropriation.
A. $22,50O, it has been sine,
they passed the bill giving ex.
ecutiveS a salary rise. / believe
before that-now my memory
may be wrong on this, but
believe it was $4,000. but
am not sure of that.
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does not really rate q press
conference with Adams?
A. / do not think that this
is unimportant. think this is
very important. and ] think
that it is SO important that the
statement of facts in this case
! has been made by Gov. Adams.
And / hope that everybody
reads them and realizes they
are facts.
@. Does the White House
claim that the executive priv
ilege extends to Gov. Adams
associations with Mr.. Godfine
who pays his hotel bills-this is
on the question of his avail
ability to committee that
would subpoena him on some
thing other than White House
affairs.
A. 1 can't answer that. don't
know.
@. / missed one Of your re-
plies. this paragraph four.
where Gov. Adams tells about
staying in that hotel, did you
say that that is an acknowl-
edgement that he accepted
allowed Goldflne to way his
/ A. Yes. Sure.
/ @. Okay.
@. Would Gov. Adams volun-
teer to go before this committee
in answer to questions under
oath?
A. l haven't heard that dis
cussed.
@. Have you got the actual
amount of money involved? Is
it the same as the committee
says it is?
A. haven't, no.
@. With respect to paragraph
four, some years ago, does that
also apply to before the summer
of 1852?
A. Yes, l believe so-Yes.
I @. Do you know the exact
date on that, Jim?
A. No. I can find out.
@. Thank you.
Q. Thank you, Mr., Secretary,
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thing" but he requested 1t. Now
are there any cases where no
one has asked him to do any
thing but he has requested in
formation from Government
agencies?
A. If you are referring to
letters" on that the answer is
Yes. l just can't and / don't
know what you mean by that.
The answer before was based
on the fact that you got con-
tinuing requests.
@. He says himself in the
next to the last paragraph
A. On what page?
@. Page two, He never
asked that I do anything, but l
requested the Special Counsel
to the President to find out
what this case was about"
A. Well, that is Gov. Adams
reporting a truthful fact and
that is what happened.
@. My question was, did he
do this in any other cases
where he was not asked
! A. My answer is l would as
sumo so. l can only repeat that
for myself. I have done that
many times.
| @. There's a great deal OF
difference in your request 70
somebody to get some informa-
| ton about a serviceman. This
| is a business man whose bust
ness is in jeopardy by the
Government on a charge here
There's quite a bit of differ
ence.
/ @. When the White House
calls up, that's influence. isn't
1T?
( A. Not any more than Con-
gressmen or Senators represent
them than when / do. This is
done as a matter of service
frequently. You know that
Sarah, as well as do.
@. It's referring this, Yes, but
this is a little different.
/ A. Not at all.
/ @. I know lots of Congress-
men and Senators who won't
take sides with a man whose
business
/ A. Il called the Chairman Of
the Federal Trade Commission
Mr.. Edward F. Howrey, on the
telephone and asked if the in.
formation Mr.. Goldfine desired
could be made available to him.
/ @. Before that, "Goldfine gave
me a letter he had received from
the Federal Trade Commission
and asked me what prompted
it."
A. would think, on that. thai
not only in the White HOUSE
but in other government agen'
Icies-in the Congress-there arr
thousands of such letters thai
come into Washington and arr
referred.
@. Involving charges of mis-.
labelling?
A. I wouldn't say charges o.
mis- Labelling. l am talking abou
the overall, like asking for in.
formation and other matters
They are all referred.
@. Would you say that Sher.
man Adams would not do more
for Mr.. Goldfine than he woulC
do for any other guy that NIGH
A. That's correct, ] am sur,
of it.
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HEADLINE PERSONALITY
Adams Gives Capital
New View of Himself

The sight of Sherman Adams
explaining himself, even as
tersely as he has in his current
letter to Chairman Harris of
the Legislative Oversight Com
mittee, is something Washing
ton never expected to see.
That the Presidential Assis-
tant should have justified his
acceptance of hospitality from
an old friend in a letter rather
than in person is entirely in
character. however. Mr.. Adams
has been about as available
to the press as Greta Carlo
during his six years at the
Presidents right hand.
Many reporters remember
the day he emplaned for Den
yer during the tense hours fol-
lowing the Presidents heart
attack in September, 1855
Someone thrust a microphone
into Mr.. Adams face. The for
mer Governor of New Hamp-
shire eyed the thruster coldly
and said tersely, why should
talk?" And he didn't. That
has been his attitude all along
There Was No Rush
Even yesterday when the
spotlight was beating fiercely
on him for his Boston hotel
visits at Bernard Goldfine S ex-
pense, Mr.. Adams appearance
at the Saints and Sinners
Lunch for Press Secretary
James c. Hagerty, was not the
signal for the press to rush up
and ask him how about it. One
doesn't, somehow.
+ AS the man closest to the
President, the granite-faced
man from the Granite State
has developed formidable rep
utation for Observation-Disclosures
There are members of his own
party, in fact, particularly those
seeking presidential blessings
or patronage, who are firmly
of the opinion that all Mr.,
Adams ever says is mo"
You can count on him in
matters of life and DEATH" a
New England Senator once told
a reporter for Newsweek maya
zine, but don't count on him
to be civil"
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How Requests
Are Handled

@. Jim, has Mr.. Adams ever
done this for anyone else,
whether he knew him or not?
A. Not only Gov. Adams but
many of us do it. When we get
a request that is a legitimate
request. Many times I myself
have forwarded letters that
come in to me to the appro-
pirate department. I have also
asked the department to meet
the men that wrote the letters.
@. Do you recall whether you
ever contacted the head of an
agency?
A. Well, I say no, that's not
quite the right answer. For
example, I can remember many
cases seeking information from
parents, for instance, of SER
vicemen-where they asked and
wrote in, friends Of mine, or not
friends of mine, about their
boy who is overseas. what's the
way they may be able to get
him back-hardship cases
things like that. We ask the
Army for information; they
send me back a memorandum:
Il forward a memorandum to
the individual that wrote the
letter. 1 do that all the time,
Sarah.
@. Did Sherman Adams do
the same thing for people he
doesn't know?
! A. Of course.
! @. He does?
A. Yes.
O., This appears to be a le-
Ultimate request made in good
faith.
/ A. You forward it to the
department or agency.
/ @. Well, could we make a
legitimate request in good faith
that you ask Mr.. Adams for an
appointment for US?
@. Would you do as much fol
us as you would do for some
one with a son in the service?
A. Certainly.
@. Mr.. Adams states that "he
never asked that l do any
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Of staying in an assortment Of
hotel rooms in Boston?
A. The President thinks that
the facts as outlined by Gov
Adams are the facts and thinks
that the letter should be sent
and made public.
@. If l may repeat this. does
he have any view on the pro-
priety Of
A. If I may repeat, my an
swer is the same.
@. Does the President see
any distinction between the
Governor staying at some
Boston hotel and Democrats
under Truman staying at the
Saxony Hotel in Miami?
A. I have no knowledge of
people staying at the Saxony
Hotel.
@. What is the distinction
between this case and Matt
Connelly's?
A. don't know enough
about the Matt Connolly
@. He has MI" Eisenhower's
full support, is that the an
Swer?
A. He has the Presidents
full confidence.
1 @. have to ask this ques-
ton. We have a query that
there is a report around in
New England where Sherman
Adams lived that he accepted
a $500 vicuna coat from Mr.
Goldtine. Would you please
find out if that is true and
give us the answer as soon as
you can?
A. / will.
I Q. What kind of coat?
laughter
@. Is this the extent of the
things that Mr.. Goldfine has
given to his old friend Mr.,
Adams-is this the extent of it?
+ A. These are the complete
facts in the case.
@. This is the complete
what is on the hotel bills is the
complete list of favors that
have been received by Adams
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resulted in the issuance by the
Commission of a cease and de-
sist order. Mr.. Goldflne never
informed me of this proceeding
or asked me to take any action
with respect to 1t.
Your Committee has made
insinuationS that I brought in
/ fiuence to bear on behalf OF
! Mr.. Goldfine in the East Bos-
ton case. These inSinuationS
are false. Here are the facts.
Sometime in 1856, Mr.. Gold
fine, during a conversation With
me. complained about the ac-
lions of the Securities and EX-
change Commission in what
4 he called the East Boston case,
He never asked that I do any
thing, but l requested the Spe-
cial Counsel to the President
to find out what this case was
about. He called the General
Counsel of the Securities and
Exchange Commission for this
information and reported back
to me. He informs me that he
did not disclose that it was
who had requested the infor-
nation. and further that he
made no representations nor
did he ask the General Coun-
sci to do or refrain from doing
anything.
When I received the infor-
nation. l did nothing further
Neither l. nor to the best of my
knowledge. any other member
of the White House staff ex-
cept in the one instance l have
discussed, ever talked with any
one in the Commission or in
any other Federal agency con-
corning that case.
To the best Of my recollec-
ton. these we're the only in
stances in which l had any
communications whatever with
any Federal agency in matters
relating to Mr.. Goldf1ne or his
J business. and have described
he full extent of my communi-
cations. Your Committee STAFF
could easily have ascertained
these facts before making in
situations based upon the en-
tertaining of myself and my
family by an old friend.
Yours very truly.
Sherman Adams
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What makes the present
state of affairs especially in
teresting is that it indicates
so clearly that Mr.. Adams can
say yes; and that when it
comes to doing favor for a
friend he can be as civil as
any man.
Some years ago Mr.. Goldfne
told me-" says Mr.. Adams in
his letter, that whenever I
had occasion to come to Boston
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@. Jim. is this the only case
where Sherman Adams has &C
cepted such gratuities from
persons doing business with the
Government?
A. Well now, wait a minute
In the first place, you say do
ing business with the Govern
ment." / have no personal
knowledge that Mr.. Goldfine is
but he may. Q
@. Doing business with the
Government was left out-the
man is doing business with the
Governor. the letter does show
that Sherman Adams did cal
and make some appointment,
for him, so he was doing bust
ness with the Government. SC
that's correct.
A. Now wait a minute. there
again, doing business with the
Government" would not apply
Il am not arguing with you
Clark, just trying to get Ian.
guage Strengthened out. This
was some controversy that hi
had with the Government.
don't know whether Mr.. Gold
fine sells to the Government
There's a distinction there.
@. Is this the only case where
Adams has received gratuitiel
from individuals having con.
troversies with the Govern.
ment?
A. Again I disagree with you
Question, that he received gra'
tuities from Mr.. Goldfine.
@. Jim. are we to understand
that he paid his personal living
expenses on all these trips wher
he was perfectly entitled tt
collect for them. and if so, why
A. Indeed, yes. Because that
the kind of fellow that Adam
is.
@. Then why didn't he pa!
his way up in Boston?
A. AS he says in his letter
that this was his friend. and i
was just like staying at hi
home,
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mimeographed. You have on
occasions before, you know.
@. Is there any place where
there's an explanation Of what
Adams duties are?
A. He's the Assistant to the
President.
@. / mean something written
down what his duties are?
@. Can we have the tran
script mimeographed. Jim?
A. Doesn't make any differ
ence to me. OF course, I'll have
it mimeographed.
@. 1t would be a good help,
@. One more question, the
Truman administrators de-
Tense in all this was that all
they did was make a request,
/ just wonder how you draw
the distinction? The Matt Con-
nelly situation, to bring you UP
to date, was he merely made a
request, that there was nc
favoritism, and we had the sit
uation in the Caudle case.
where he said. Il got five thou
sand dollars fee but ! prose-
cuted the individual, But he
was fired, and l Just wonder
how you draw the distinction
in this case
A. think by your very ques-
ton you have drawn the dis
tinction.
! @. In what way?
4 A. Again, unless I know all
of the facts can't answer it.
and am not going to do so.
think if I knew more about it
/ could give you a breakdown
on it.
@. Is Sherman Adams going
to continue this hospitality
Q Is he going to pay back
the money, now that he finds
out it was not special suite
which Goldfine-
A. I haven't got any infor-
nation.
Q. Do you know whether he
accepted the hospitality priol
to 1852 or 1858?
A. Yes, as a matter of fact
before 1858, when he came
down to Washington.
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Continued From First Page

NOitikIueu EIOm fITSt rage
grade Jobs will have to meet
minimum Civil Service Com
mission qualifications. This
also includes appointeeS to
political schedule c jobs in the
supergrades. The only ex.
captions to this provision are
staff assistants to the PreSi.
dent and presidential ap-
pointeeS.
7, The Budget Bureau is di-
rected to take steps to have
Federal agencies absorb as
much of the $340 million a
year cost of the pay raises as
possible by reducing employ
ment through attrition-not
filling some of the normal
personnel vacancies that occur.
Ban on Separations
However, the provision spe-
officially states that no present
employe shall be separated as
a. result of the new law and
that all employment cuts
should be achieved through
attrition and not firings.
Also, the provision leaves 1t
up to the President and the
Budget Bureau to exempt any
agency from this attrition pro-
gram if it is felt that such
cutbacks would prevent an
agency from effectively carry
ing out its duties.
8. Besides Federal classified
employees, the 10 per cent raise
goes to District government
classified workers, legislative
and judicial personnel, foreign
service officers and employees,
Veterans Administration medi-
cal personnel. and non-civil
service agencies such as the
FBI, Central Intelligence,
Atomic Energy, Tennessee VAL
ley Authority, etc. All in all.
more than a million employees
will benefit from the raise.
8. Postal supervisors. post.
masters and other postal field
service executives in levels 7
through 10 will receive the
same 10 per cent pay raise as
other postal workers. The new
postal pay law gave 10 per cent
raises to most postal workers
but provided only rs per cent
for those IN levels Z and above.
The classified pay measure
took care of this inequity by
giving those in postal level 7
and above the additional. 2.5
per cent.
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Ask Interview
With Adams

@. Getting back to a former
question, Jim, would you for
ward my request to Gov. Adams
for an interview on this mat
ter? Will you forward the re-
quest to him?
A. Sure.
@. Me, too.
A. All right.
@. Are these to be separate
EXCLUSIVELY? Gaughter)
@. am not interested in
exclusiveness. l Just want to
see the man.
@. would like to put in a
request that this transcript be
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Lear Mr.. harris
Since your Committee has
chosen to make public the ex-
tent Of entertaining of myself
and my family on the part OF
an old friend, Mr.. Bernard
Goldfine. and has insinuated
that because of this entertain
ing or this friendship Mr.
Goldfine has received, on my
intercession, favored treatment
from Federal agencies, I feel
that I should set the record
straight.
I categorically deny such in
situations. They are unwar-
rented and unfair.
Mrs. Adams and / have known
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Goldfint
for well over is years. We have
entertained them in our home
and they have entertained us
in theirs. We have had a close
personal relationship.
Some years ago Mr.. Gold
fine told me that whenever
had occasion to come to Boston
he hoped that I would stay in
his hotel suite at the Sheraton
Plaza. I understood that he
maintained this apartment or
a continuing basis. Whenever
was in Boston overnight,
accepted the hospitality thus
proffered by my friend. 1t was
not until after the records OF
the Sherston-Plsza Hotel were
Subpoensed by your Committee
that l learned that Mr.. Gold
fine did not then maintain ar
apartment on a continuing
basis.
The Committee could have
also disclosed that Mrs. Adams
and were guests of Mr.. anc
Mrs. Goldfine at the Mayflowel
Hotel in Plymouth last year
and were guests at their home
in Chestnut Hill at other times
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from Mr., Goldfine, is that cor
rect?
A, Wait minute-as far as
/ Knowles. That is my I'M
Outstanding,
@. Did he tell the President
that?
/ A. I don't know. l wasn't in
on the conversation.
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Matter Viewed
AS Now Closed

@. jim, would this be a fair
summary of what you have
given us, together with the let
ter, chat Sherman Adams feels
that he has done nothing i'm
proper and President EiSen-
hover feels that he has done
nothing improper?
A. l think that is a fair
summary.
@. And I kept asking you if
the President had any views
on its propriety and you
wouldn't answer that.
@. He thinks it's all right?
@. The President has put his
approval on this transaction?
A. The President thinks that
these facts have been stated
and that these are the full
facts.
@. Your answer to Eddie was
that Adams feels there swas
nothing improper and the
President agrees that there is
nothing improper?
A. I think that's fair.
@. Would it be fair to go on
to say that as far as the White
House is concerned, this mat
ter is closed?
A. l would think that is
right.
G. Do you know if Gov.
Adams stayed at a Boston
hotel at any time at Mr.. Gold
fines expense before the Gov
ernor was connected with the
Government?
A. 1 thought I answered that
by saying that in the fourth
paragraph, some years ago,
means before January, 1858.
@. Was the President given
full description of this whole
operation including the cases
where Gov. Adams did call the
agencies, and so on?
A. He was given the full facts
that are outlined fully in this
letter, yes. Answer is yes.
@. Are you saying that there
is absolutely no resemblance
between this case and any of
the cases during the so-called
Truman scandals?
A. Again, Andy, ! can't hon.
estly base my answer because
I haven't complete knowledge
of those cases. l have on this.
@. Do you consider. Jim, that
this is so unimportant that this
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Cites Personal
Relationship

@. Is it all right for this ad-
ministration to accept free
hotel rooms offered by business
men who are either doing bust
ness with or in controversy with
the Government? q
A. Let me try to answer that
by rephrasing your question, If
i may You are making a
charge or statement that !
don't think is the right state
ment in connection with the
matters we are discussing now.
This is a personal friend who
had what the Governor be-
lieved was a-what amounted
to a city home. That is en-
tirely different than the case
or the question which you men,
ton.
@. Jim, you regard this hotel
suite as a city home? Mr.. Gold
fine only lived a few blocks
away.
A. Well, it's about 1915
miles.
@. Chestnut Hill?
@. II to IS miles.
A. Whatever it was.
@. Did he regard this series
of rooms as Mr.. Goldfne's
home?
A. His permanent apartment
in downtown Boston.
/ Q. Not permanent. Jim, many
different rooms?
A. Nevertheless, that's what
Mr.. Goldfine said.
@. Does he feel that Mr.
Goldf1ne misled him on this?
A. I refer you to the letter.
Q. Did Goldf1ne tell him this?
/ A, don't know.
@. Do you. see a similarity
between this circumstance and
the radio and TV industry pay
ing hotel bills for FEC Com
missioners?
A. I certainly don't.
Q. What is the distinction?
A. l am not going to outline
it for you. If you don't know
the difference, I do.
@. The commissioners saio
they had good friends who are
in the industry and
A. l don't see any difference
I will let it go at that.
@. You don't see any differ
ence?
Q. You do or you don't?
A. No. do see a difference
excuse me qaug hter),
thought I said that.
Q. I would like to go back To
this matter of the hotel bills
l don't want to belabor it-but
as you can see it says only by
implication that his bills we're
paid and We are going to be
asked about that point right
away. Can you say that that
is in substance what Gov.
Adams is saying there, that the
bills were paid by Mr. Goldflne
A. Now wait a minute. Mary
Why don't you read it-"When-
ever l was in Boston overnight,
/ accepted the hospitality thus
proffered by my friend"
Q. I understand that. Does
that mean Goldfine paid his
payments
A. It's English, Marv.
@. Well. does it? You say
Yes or No?
A. I refer you TO the letter.
@. You have already said it.
@. No, he did not.
@. I thought I wrote it down.
@. No. he did not.
O. You said Goldfne paid
these bills.
A. I am not making any
mystery about it. There's no
mystery about it. Yes.
@. You said you have re-
ferred many letters to ap-
propriate agencies as Adams
has done. Have you ever ar
ranged an appointment with