James Hagerty, the President’s minister plenipotentiary to the press, was asked a fairly simple question during the week: Was it true that Mr. Eisenhower might resign because of his celebrated heart attack? Mr. Hagerty’s answer was fairly simple. “Nuts,” he said.
This suggests two things. First, that Mr. Hagerty, at the altitude of his position, feels giddily uncorseted from the ordinary restraints of proper language. Second, and more flexibly, it suggests the level on which political reporting finds itself these days.
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