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...They Dropped Me." Dunham kept diaries, instructed his secretary to listen in and make notations of each call. There were 45 calls from or about Dawson, 151 from Boyle or his office. Mostly, Boyle or his men wanted him to see some "very dear friend" on an RFC matter. And in August 1950, the Democratic Committee called about a loan for Pacific Rubber Co., a tire company "wholly or partly owned" by President Truman's good friend Edwin W. Pauley. Mr. Dunham gave it-"I don't like to use the word special"-consideration because "we were anxious...
...social flies buzzed loudest around Dunham's head when he began taking an interest in the $37.5 million Lustron loan. Dunham suddenly decided that Social Buddy Rex Jacobs was just the man to make a production survey of Lustron. Jacobs reported back that...
Lustron needed was a change in management-just about the time that an engineering firm reported officially that Lustron was hopeless and should be foreclosed. Next, Dunham heard a report that a "grab" of Lustron had been plotted at a house party at Jacobs' Florida ranch. Among the guests: Mr. & Mrs. Dawson, Merl Young and his wife Lauretta, the mink-coated White House secretary. Said Dunham: "Out of this Lustron matter came my first feeling of doubt . . . Shortly thereafter, it became apparent that my old 'friends' had cooled. They dropped me." "They" included Donald Dawson...
...Dunham couldn't understand how all this came about. "I think I am lacking entirely in political sagacity," he said sadly. It now seemed clear to him that "some of the gentlemen . . . sought to use me. Somebody took me in, I guess. They were kind...
...Goat. Dunham insisted that Dawson himself had never tried to influence him on a RFC loan. But, he conceded, "I think I have outlived my usefulness with the RFC." He had tentatively written out a resignation several weeks ago, he said, and gone to Florida for a vacation. There he got a call from RFC's Vice Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter...