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Aging (71) Jimmy Byrnes, who stayed haughty and aloof during the primary, easily won the governorship. That solved one problem for friends of the ex-Senator, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-Secretary of State. Said he: "A lot of folks . . . have been telling me they had a hell of a...
Wrote George Marshall: "Completely without basis in fact. So far as I and my associates can recall I never even met Mr. Lattimore." Wrote Cordell Hull: "In no sense . . . I am not aware that during this period he had any appreciable influence." Wrote Acheson: "Mr. Lattimore, so far as I...
This political attack was made, Ives pointed out, in the face of Dulles' record in foreign affairs as a willing and tireless. aid of Administration diplomacy-a record which had received the praise of Cordell Hull, George Marshall, James Byrnes, Dean Acheson, Harry Truman.
Political Liability. The reasons for Acheson's troubles lay in part in politics, in part in his own personality. Unlike some of his predecessors, Dean Acheson has no political support in his own right; this might not be a fatal defect, but it did not help to rally Democratic...
Secretary of State James Byrnes heard the disturbing rumor that some Congressmen were going to denounce Hiss as a Communist from the floor of the House. Byrnes felt constrained to ask Hiss what about it. When Hiss told him flatly that he was not a Communist, Byrnes advised him to...