From an office in Washington to a hotel suite at Atlantic City, Harry M. Daugherty went. He faced the future jauntily, faced reporters with banter. Behind him he left his resignation as Attorney General and a Senate investigation whose boiling died into simmering as he drew farther away.
The final break with the President, so often foretold, came at last on a by-issue. The Senate investigating committee requested authority for its representative to go through such files of the Department of Justice as it might designate. The Attorney General refused the...