In Dwight Eisenhower's White House office, Chicago's Charles Harting Percy, 38-year-old president of Bell & Howell Co., cameramakers, told how key businessmen were planning to hash over ways of fighting the recession. High point of the plans would be a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association attended by some 2,000 top businessmen. President Eisenhower, who holds it an article of faith that Government, business and labor have a joint antirecession responsibility, jumped to his feet, began pacing the floor. "Do you mean that's really what you're going to do?" asked he....
THE PRESIDENCY: Nominations for Oblivion
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