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But the Big Three meeting was the main fact to Harry Truman-"to meet and talk and trust each other." He had his plans ready, his team picked (Stettinius, Hopkins, Jimmy Byrnes and the Combined Chiefs of Staff).
The President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home...
Early this year Jimmy Byrnes, then director of the Office of War Mobilization & Reconversion, borrowed Clay and put him in working charge of the U.S. economy.
As deputy mobilizer, Clay got many a civilian back up. His grim insistence on war priority, his sometimes arbitrary ways of getting it, gave some civilian officials, and some of his Army colleagues, a feeling that he had forgotten that the U.S., even in war, is a democracy. His critics...
All this did not necessarily mean that Byrnes was going to replace Ed Stettinius, now or later. Washington was only sure that Big Ed's department was in for a shakeup. Jimmy Byrnes might figure in it from the inside, or the outside.