"Well, so far as I am concerned," said President Eisenhower at his press conference, "here is some irresponsible reporting." The President was referring directly to a news story describing his relationship with Chief Justice Earl Warren as "cold and distant and marred by disapproval on both sides." Author of the story: the
New York Herald Tribune's Washington Bureau Chief Robert J. Donovan, elected in 1955 by the White House to write the authoritative story of the Administration (Eisenhower: The Inside Story).
Donovan was merely reporting what those closest to the Administration have long realized: that Dwight Eisenhower and Earl Warren do not...