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Friday, Dec. 29, 1972-21
Our Presidents' Jewish Confidants From Taylor to Truman
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
"l'hayim" at a wedding of
a Jewish friend, Jefferson
had any number of Jewish
friends. Down in his home
state, Richmond was prob-
ably the city with the largest
Jewish population in early
America.
Haym Salomon helped
Madison out in his early
days, giving him loans, but
Madison wrote he did not
like to borrow from Salomon
because Salomon refused to
take interest from him, say-
ing that the price of money
was high, interest should
only be exacted from those
who intend to use the money
for speculation.
We were about to say that
maybe Franklin Pierce com-
ing all the way from New
Hampshire never had any
relations with Jews, but then
we remembered that it was
President Pierce who offered
Judah P. Benjamin a Su-
preme Court appointment,
but Benjamin turned it down.
That was long before Wilson
named Brandeis to the Su-
preme Court bench.
It's nice to have your
friends and relatives at a
Bar Mitzva or at a wedding,
but sometime if you are in
need, one who is not too
close can be more helpful.
It's the same way with Pres-
idents. Take the case of
William Howard Taft. The
Tafts were neighbors of
Rabbi Wise in Cincinnati.
The 'rafts were Unitarians.
When Taft ran for re-elec-
tion, the chairman of the
Republican convention was a
Jew. Gus Karger, the Wash-
ington correspondent of the
Cincinnati limes-Star — the
paper owned by the Taft's
brothers and which played a
prominent part in promoting
Taft as a national figure—
was a Jew. Yet in Jewish
emergencies, William How-
ard Taft did not come across.
When, following the Czarist
restrictions against J e w s,
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It wasn't that Taft was un-
sympathetic. It was simply
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ment. The Czar was the es-
tablishment to him. When
some American Jewish lead-
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ers suggested the brilliant
and scholarly Judge Mayer
Sulzberger would make an
ideal member of the Supreme
Court, Taft rejected it, say-
ing how would it look with
a man named Sulzberger on
the Supreme Court.
The first
President to
really do something for Klal
On Most
Visroel (the Jewish commu•
nity) was Woods-ow Wilson.
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gone through with the Bal-
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been pro-Roosevelt. When he
ran for governor of New
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candidate , Ottinger , who was
a Jew, most of the Jews
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voted for FDR.
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the important part played in
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his administration by Sidney
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showed that he had no preju-
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such welcome as they had in
Wilson's days. Perhaps the
explanation is that Roosevelt,
while he made history, had
no sense of history as did
Wilson, the professional his-
torian, who could see the Jew
in his historical identity.
If the Zionist leaders
made no great impression on
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FDR, it appears that a meet-
ing with the king of Saudi
Arabia did. Ibn Saud was
a colorful figure, and perhaps
if Dr. Weizmann had come
visiting Roosevelt covered
with a big shawl, or flowing
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ferent.
But whatever were FDR's
deficiencies with respect to
Israel, they were compen-
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Harry Truman.
Truman could sympathize
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more with the plights of the
have-nots
than could FDR be-
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rich man's son. One can
tell much about a person by
his idols. Andrew Jackson
was Truman's. When Andrew
Jackson was in the White
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Every President has had
some relations with Jews.
Even Zachary Taylor, "Old
Rough and Ready," who told
Rabbi Isaac M. Wise that he
was the first rabbi he had
met, had met Jews who were
not rabbis. Washington is
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Under Supenrisioa of Council of Orthodox Rabbis
House, congressmen were
invited to visit alphabetical-
ly. The first week, the As
and Bs went to the White
House dinner. The next week,
the congressmen with names
which began with B or C.
That was for complete demo-
cratic equality.
Israel has cause to remem-
ber Andrew Jackson. The
fact is, there was an interval
when President Truman be-
came very resistant to the
Zionist appeal. It appears
some Zionist leaders had
rubbed him the wrong way,
and when Dr. Weizmann
sought to speak to him, he
found the door to the White
House closed.
Eddie Jacobson, Truman's
old buddy, who had served
with him in the first World
War and later was his part-
ner in a haberdashery shop
in Kansas City, sought to
intervene in behalf of Weiz-
mann.
Truman in his memoirs ex-
pressed the highest regard
for Eddie Jacobson. He re-
marked that their business
partnership was almost idyl-
lic and that Jacobson never
asked him for a single favor
for himself when he became
President.
Nevertheless, when Eddie
came to the White House, he
found a cold reception. Eddie
Jacobson talked, but Truman
said nothing doing. Eddie
figured it was a lost cause
and rose to leave. Just then
he spotted the statue of An-
drew Jackson on Truman's
desk. That brought back
memories.
"You were always talking
to me about Andrew Jack-
son. lie was your ideal. Well,
I have an ideal too. He is
Dr. Weizmann. He is a great
man. He is a sick man and
has crossed the ocean to see
you, and you won't even see
him."
Truman couldn't take it
any longer. "You win, you
bald-headed son of a bitch,"
he said
So it was that the United
States was the first nation
to recognize the independ-
ence of Israel. Many of the
State Department chiefs
were always trying to dou•
ble-cross Israel, always call-
ing attention of the President
"to the vital needs of Amer-
ica in the Middle East," by
which of course, they meant
oil. Truman referred to these
State Department heads as
"the striped pants boys."
Every time the President
said anything favorable to
Israel "the striped pants
boys" would call In the
Arabs and say the statement
was meant for Jewish con-
sumption only.
Truman was instrumental
in getting revision of the
original partition of the
Negev, which had been de-
to exclude Israel
from the Red Sea. Weiz-
mann, to clarify Israel's
position, showed Truman
maps of the area. After
Weizmann's d e a t h, Mrs.
Weizmann visited the White
House, and when she told
Truman that her husband
said he was the only Presi-
dent he had met who could
read maps, Truman laughed.
But Truman is said to have
given way to tears when on
Ben-Gurion's last' visit to
America, Truman visited him
at his New York hotel and
Ben-Gurion said to him, "I
do not know how you will
stand in American history,
but you have a secure place
in the history of Israel."
Truman was deeply moved. l
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