Embattled Chief of Staff John Sununu might consider the case of another former Governor of New Hampshire who held the same White House job. Sherman Adams was described as "laconic, abrupt, businesslike and puritanically honest." The story is a little more complicated. When it became clear that Adams was becoming an issue that could help the Democrats in the elections that fall, Eisenhower sent Vice President Nixon and the Republican National Chairman to visit Adams. Rather it stems from the strange configuration of American politics and New Hampshire's place in it. In late September Adams resigned.
Embattled Chief of Staff John Sununu might consider the case of another former Governor of New Hampshire who held the same White House job. Sherman Adams was described as "laconic, abrupt, businesslike and puritanically honest." The story is a little more complicated. When it became clear that Adams was becoming an issue that could help the Democrats in the elections that fall, Eisenhower sent Vice President Nixon and the Republican National Chairman to visit Adams. In late September Adams resigned.