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Moreover, as Snyder moved in, some of OWMR's ablest operators moved out. Vinson's fat, fast-thinking general counsel, Ed Prichard, would follow his boss to the Treasury; Don Russell, a Jimmy Byrnes protege who had handled much of the war production side, had gone with Byrnes...
Banker Snyder set out to build his own pipelines to other Government departments. He had one consolation: Fred Vinson would carry much of his economic policy-making with him to the Treasury Department. No one pretended that John Snyder would ever be called the Assistant President, as Jimmy Byrnes and...
Into the State Department as a special assistant (and probably later as State's legal counsel), came quiet, unstuffy Benjamin Victor Cohen. This was a sweet morsel for both Byrnes and Cohen. After Dumbarton Oaks (which Ben Cohen had helped to draft), he had been slated for the State...
Ben Cohen would be a key figure in the State Department. So, apparently, would be able Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton, at whose appointment last December left-wingers had raised a wailing cry of anguish. To Will Clayton, in Jimmy Byrnes's first week, went new duties. He was...
No one doubted that when Jimmy Byrnes returned from the Big Three meeting, more fireworks would pop. He and his good friend Harry Truman had already had several talks about the State Department's weaknesses would have plenty of time and opportunity on their European trip to find out...