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While Washington jittered over Tokyo's delay, the President looked ahead to the peace and its problems, switched on the green light for a startlingly sudden return of industry to prewar pursuits (see BUSINESS). To this end, he had called in Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, others...
The Day. On Surrender Day, the President was up at 7:15 a.m. As the tenseness grew, hour by hour, as Jimmy Byrnes made hurried trips in & out of the White House side door, Harry Truman outwardly seemed to be the calmest man in Washington.
If there was any celebrating inside the White House that night, there was no official word of it. The best guess: Harry Truman, Jimmy Byrnes and a few others got together around highballs. But happy Harry Truman had two telephone calls to make: 1) to his 92-year-old mother...
Harry Truman heard the sum-up of his advisers - Secretary Jimmy Byrnes, Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley, War Mobilizer John Snyder, Fleet Admiral William Leahy. Then the President spoke his mind: he was dead set against the U.S. adding to its reputation as a Santa Claus...
For the second time in nine months, the State Department got a house cleaning. Secretary Stettinius had brought a whole new team with him last December. Now Secretary Byrnes began to fire & hire.