Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Senator from South Carolina, War Mobilizer and Supreme Court Justice, James F. Byrnes was one of the strong right arms that helped Franklin D. Roosevelt fashion his New Deal. After Roosevelt's death, shrewd, spry Jimmy Byrnes stayed on in Washington, became Harry Truman's first Secretary...
"In 1946, just before I was going to Paris to work on the treaties [for the German puppet enemy states]," he recalled, "Mrs. Byrnes insisted that I have a checkup-so I went to the Naval Hospital and they took a cardiogram of me. I'd not been sick...
Byrnes did not get back until December. He went to see President Truman and formally resigned. "I had to wait a couple of weeks until Marshall could get back [from China]. So I went to the Naval Hospital again and they made another test. After they got through, a doctor...
Ever since ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes left Harry Truman's service in 1947, he had kept mum about politics. His silence during the presidential campaign led fellow South Carolinians to wonder whether he looked on the Dixiecrats with favor. But not until last week did he let...
Acheson, who has a keener sense for conference table tactics than either George Marshall or James Byrnes, frankly stated the U.S. position: "We are in Berlin by virtue of international agreements...but more fundamentally we are there on account of power and force and the successful prosecution of the war...