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...crony, Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, to sit with the Cabinet, because of McKellar's position as Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening to this shoddy impresario of the patronage grab...
...with courage, modesty and dispatch...
...choice: tall, stooped, scholarly Charles Griffith Ross, 59. Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a discerning and fair-minded news veteran who has long had the respect of Washington's critical, competitive correspondent corps. In the decades since he was graduated from the Independence (Mo.) high school with Harry Truman, Charley Ross has served 16 years as chief of the P-D's Washington bureau, handled almost every kind of story, and specialized brilliantly in political reporting...
...personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter who is now public-relations director for the Democratic National Committee...
...Then, on the fifteenth day, I dispatch several messages. And shortly thereafter my amiable brown-and white-and yellow-skinned acquaintances come up through the garden to the bird-cage house. With quiet, impassive faces they inquire about the condition of Mrs. Civilization...