If any man other than the President himself symbolized the first Eisenhower Administration, it was marble-cool, granite-solid Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey. He was Dwight Eisenhower's closest Cabinet friend, the President's most trusted adviser in domestic affairs, the architect of a fiscal policy that helped bring record-breaking prosperity in peacetime. Months ago, George Humphrey telegraphed his intention to return to private business at the end of the 85th Congress (TIME, Feb. 11). The announcement last week of his resignation was therefore no surprise. But it was a highly significant landmark: it...
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