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...Bernard Baruch, economic adviser to Presidents in two wars, faced peace again in an optimistic mood, declared: "We can have a prosperity that will startle the world if we use half the brains and brawn the good Lord gave us; even 47½% will make for peace and high living standards...
...were 1,000 boxes and bundles in all, and ushers stepped carefully around the crates in the corridors. Secret servicemen, White House office workers and servants came to Mrs. Roosevelt's upstairs study to say goodbye. She thanked them, her voice warm, her face strained. Others came-"Bernie" Baruch, Judge Rosenman, Admiral Leahy. She chatted with each one, then went back to her "thank you" notes. In the early evening, she put on her coat and hat. In the White House rooms past which she walked, the outlines of vanished pictures showed on bare walls...
...seemed likely that Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, frequent adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, would lose none of his influence at the top of the government, particularly in view of his close friendship with Jimmy Byrnes. And white-thatched Jesse Jones would be available for financial advice...
...superseded accredited ambassadors, spoken the President's mind more authoritatively than did the Secretary of State. At the moment of Roosevelt's death, his own men were abroad on the world business of the U.S. -Ed Flynn on Vatican-Kremlin understanding, Judge Samuel Rosenman and Bernard Baruch on Europe's torn economy. Pat Hurley, the accredited Ambassador to China, had just left London for Moscow and Chungking on a personal mission for the President. In Rome the President's representative at the Vatican, Myron Taylor, was already speaking of his post in the past tense...
...Baruch's red-faced press secretary (who apparently believes that newsmen should not take down offhand remarks too literally) complained: "Lasky wrote his story as if he was covering a fire...