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Florence Umberhocker Bratten had served for 25 years as confidential secretary to Alben Barkley. A plump and jolly woman, she liked to boast that she had a first-name friend in every office in the Government. One of her friends was Charles E. ("Chuck") Shaver, counsel for the Senate Small Business Committee. In the 1948 and 1950 campaigns, Shaver was Barkley's personal aide...
...terse resignation to the Senate Small Business Committee. It was accepted immediately. Flo flew back from a vacation at her Kentucky farm to face the preliminary inquiries of Counsel Francis Flanagan of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. She then had an hour-long interview with her boss, Alben Barkley...
...Veep came out looking old and tired and sat down to the most strained press conference in his political history. Two stenographers kept careful record as he explained that Flo Bratten was "an accommodating, good-natured, bighearted woman." Would she keep her job? Said Barkley, woodenly: "I am not going to make a hasty judgment ... I am reserving judgment...
...Steele also seined up the fact that Alben Barkley, in 1934, successfully led a fight against a bill prohibiting any attempts by Government officials, politicians or members of Congress to influence RFC loans. Said Barkley then: "It seems to me that [the bill] casts a suspicion on everybody in Congress who might be willing to aid a constituent or a friend...
...last week, the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Steele was confronted by his six-year-old son waving a Washington Post. "Daddy," he asked, "what's this woman doing with a gun?" The woman on the front page was Flo Bratten, secretary to Veep Alben Barkley, dressed in her outfit as an honorary Kentucky deputy sheriff, and the gun she held was pointed straight at the reader. Steele grinned; Flo Bratten had reason to draw a bead on him. He had just broken the story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel for the Senate small...