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...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
Mornings, the President lay abed until 7:30 a.m.-far beyond his usual rising hour. With Adviser Clark Clifford, Vice President-elect Alben Barkley, and Senate Secretary-to-be Les Biffle, he walked daily over to the secluded enlisted men's beach. There he donned a pair of trunks and splashed in the coral-green waters, using the peculiar head-out-of-water stroke he calls the "Missouri sidestroke." Afterwards, he clapped his pith helmet on his head, lolled on the beach reading newspapers while his aides threw a ball or played darts...
...Taft-Hartley. High on the list was repeal of the Taft-Hartley law.* If Barkley had his way a new act would be written, much more to labor's liking. Some of the Taft-Hartley law which labor did not like: measures which outlawed the closed shop, required unions to file financial reports, required labor to hold elections to win union shop contracts, forbade union contributions to political campaigns, required officers to sign non-Communist affidavits, outlawed jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The business of new labor legislation was under the wing of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
Would the President's controversial civil liberties program come up? Said Kentucky's Alben Barkley: "It hasn't been discussed by the President with me. I presume it will be in his message to Congress...
...Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur...