The lure of a peep into the White House's own files made an overnight bestseller last week of New York Herald Tribune Reporter Robert J. Donovan's new book, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (TIME, July 2). Many a newspaper reader rushed to get it because most of the U.S. press, apparently confused over the release date, lagged in reporting Donovan's fresh material. Among the most avid: Democratic Congressmen, who promptly began to cry "foul."
From both Houses came the angry charge that the Administration had turned Donovan loose on hush-hush papers that it has steadfastly denied to Congress. Illinois' Democrat William Dawson, chairman...
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