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Philip Maguire, 44, of Plainfield, N.J., made his entrance into Washington as a young lawyer in the NRA. From there he marched through the Government's alphabet of bureaus. He helped work out the food-stamp plan. He served on WPB. spent three years in the Army, returned to serve on the CPA, went to Greece with the first military mission. He stayed to direct Greek trade and commerce, then returned to take charge of the Administration's program for relieving unemployment. He is the President's expert on public-works programs.
George Elsey, 31, is a fresh-faced Princeton graduate who worked in Franklin Roosevelt's White House map room during the war, buckled down afterwards as a researcher for Clifford During the 1948 campaign he wrote the backgrounds and many of the punch lines for Harry Truman's speeches in his 31,500-mile campaign. He is now one of the men at work researching, rewriting and polishing the State of the Union, budget and economic messages which the President will deliver to the new session of the 81st Congress.
David Lloyd, 38, another Clifford protégé, is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Clifford found him working on the Democratic National Committee, turning out what Clifford thought was "stuff with real style." Now Lloyd, whose first novel will be published in the spring, puts some of that style into Harry Truman's pedestrian speeches.
David Stowe, 39, is a Steelman protégé, born in Connecticut, a former schoolteacher and the son of a schoolteacher. He does the President's homework on the specific problems of the National Security Resources Board, planning the economic moves to be made in event of war.
Scurrying between the White House and the old State Building, all of these advisers live carefully compartmented lives. They see little of each other socially. They are divided roughly in their thinking between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork.