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A Tailor Once Advised President Eisenhower On Foreign Policy By Slipping Notes Into His Suits

A Tailor Once Advised President Eisenhower On Foreign Policy By Slipping Notes Into His Suits

One of my first political clients was my liberator and hero, General Dwight D. Eisenhower. After the war, when he needed a civilian wardrobe, he turned to his friends the Goldmans. One day in 1949, Mr. Goldman pulled me aside. "I've got a special assignment for you," he said. "I need you to oversee the production of suits for President Eisenhower."