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...homey, handsome dining room at the Treasury Department, with a cheery fire on the hearth, hospitable Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. entertained guests at lunch: grey-haired Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and big, bald Representative Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. They were talking taxes...
...Congress, still groaning from the $13,000,000,000 tax egg it laid a few weeks ago, is not anxious to start brooding on Social Security taxes. Last week President Roosevelt sent for hot-tempered old Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, mountaineer chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. Still smarting from the slap in the face that Franklin Roosevelt gave him over the tax bill (TIME, Aug. 11), Muley Doughton jammed his battered black planter's hat down on his bald dome, stumped around to the White House...
...President greeted him with the melting charm that only a Roosevelt can muster, touched his heart by inquiring about Mrs. Doughton's health, asked how the Doughton beef steers were getting on at Laurel Springs, N.C. Then he mentioned the Social Security message he was preparing for Congress, topped it off with some breezy chitchat about world affairs. Mountaineer Doughton went away mollified but not wholly convinced. He thought the President would probably see part of his New Deal dream made flesh, but not his whole heart's desire...
...very greatly surprised," wrote Mountaineer Doughton, "to receive your letter. . . . The matters discussed . . . have all received our most careful consideration. ... As to mandatory joint returns . . . our whole desire was to place the family upon an equitable basis . . . and remove the admitted evil of tax avoidance...
...this correspondence with the President, Bob Doughton ordered 100 mimeographed copies, gleefully distributed them to reporters. Said he: "You think it's a pretty good letter, hey, boys? Well, you can have all the copies you want. Take some to your friends...