WASHINGTON REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200080032-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: November 24, 1952
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Date:. ,NOV 2 ..4 1952
. ? ingto Mnst Popular Aide_
Bea ring Auch nicknames amon
his old Army ARsociates as "Slick.'l
And "Jerry," it can undoubtedlyt;
he Paid that Gen., Persons, amontlf
members of Congress, newspape.
men and his old comrades st Olt (
Pentagon is probably more unIU.
vernally, liked than any cf th
men around the President-Elect.
Like "Beetle" Smith. Person
became a second lieutenant ilk
1917, And stayed With the Arrnki
until his retirement in 1e50. fly
that time he was a major grinerfl
hut in the interim. he had dorte
R. noteworthy .joh for the armed
services. A handsome; and pei-
sonable officer (no pun intended)
he had performed one of the most
difficult assignments of the. pre-
war and postwar periods. He was
liaison between the Armed forceas
End Congress, a ta.sk which. re-1
quired Infinite tact, knowledirge
a nd the kind et ability rarefy
By BASCOM N. TIMMO
The Mali Reeeld WeashIncton Bur
Ike's Helpers
Before the election, one of A
apprehensiona current among % t-
ees was said to be that Gen.
senhower, if elected, would4-
round hims f
with roillt
men ? me
ing gTadlla
of the Unit
States Milita
Academy ?
h i a principk1.
aides, and thin,
establish a :at,
of militar
junta in th
White. House
found in military men.
Quite o
Timmonts viously, t. b a.
'fear was not. AA widespread as th On the EisenhoWer rnpai
reports indicated, and it is a 'rain, when fig.htin and feud*
propriate. to point out that th mong the ambitious and .somit
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President-Elect. in the instance limes befuddled top level advise 4
where, he pieces reliance upo rented to becloud the prospe
Army associates, has leaned more of the ,Republican eandidateit
upon non-West Pointers than election. "Jerry" Persens?nobodts
graduates of the Aca.demy. preens to know how he got thit
HP owed much of hia AUCCeSit nickname?straightened out. mant
to him fellow General of the Army a snarl. He had the complete con=
George C. Marshall..who had con fidence of the mob of reporteri
siderable th dn with his selection who were Along, a.nd gave hif
to teed our forces in Africa an old chief n quality of loyalty th4
Europe. He named as his chief o seemed to transcend that .of othezi
staff an obscure officer named: of ,the Chosen circle.
Walter Bedell Smith, an old Nal It was typical of General Peri
tional Guardsman of World War; eons that he :should how out a.
I, who is now head of the Central,
the end of the campaign, and a.n,
Intelligence Agency, our ineffrille! nounce that he did not expect Rngl
creartroaleaslieor'rrhering
inform- further assignment. from Dwight
tion in protect our national secur-! D. Eisenhower. But the generat
ity. Neither of these invalua.ble, ;opinion here is that the President4
helpers ever went to the. U. S.
Military Academy. Elect will have different idea.
?Good Press Secretary.
Invaluable Assistant
t The President-Elect luck
During the. campaign. when
aving with him men of
unusual
both Marshall and Smith 'h
re.-
Competence in special positinns
mained aloof from the presiden-
.extends to campaign press
tial contest, another Army offi-
iecretary. James C. Hagerty, loan-
also lacking a West Point
eer of demonstrated ability, but
id by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
diplo-
'ew 'York, whose press relation
ma, came to the fore as an in-
agerty has handled Pince 1943,
valuable. Eisenhower a.ssistant. He.
is Maj. Gen. William B. Prsns1 Hagerty is a general favorit
,
(retired). 56-y the folks who write the news
ear-old native of
gut even though he is only 43'
Montgomery, Ala., whe says he ,
ar s old, there may he nne de
expects to have no part of the ye
te
new administration, but whom the tering factor to hi ecceptane
?Pia White House appointment a.
President-Elecen campaign asso-:
elates sincerely hope will have a priss secretary. The two pas
ite House secretaries have died
very importa.nt job.
in a
Like his former chief, P three year of heart pt-
ern e out of scholastk retirement ta? 13"
e c'
as superintendent of Staunton _That may oincidence, bud
h
Military Academy (Staunton, Va.) do ou think that. the assignment ie
to assist Gen. Eisenhower on his nf rese secretary tn the White
return to Ebrope aberud of Houfi?overt at. $1S,000 a. year- -
NATO, and . has- been with him is akything to break your riPck
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/20 :
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