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...convention opened, Truman was balking. Finally, Roosevelt was called by the party's chairman. Bob Hannegan, while Truman listened...
...said Mr. Hannegan. 'He is the contrariest Missouri mule I have ever dealt with...
...Chairman Paul Butler says the Democratic party "need make no apologies for a method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...
...country, they hammered at a weakened Roosevelt, who finally gave in most reluctantly. The Gallup poll published on July 18, 1944 indicated that among the rank-and-file I had 65 percent of the vote and Truman only 2 percent. I would have been named in 1944 if Hannegan and Flynn had kept their hands off the delegates...
There is no evidence for Republican Chairman Leonard Hall's statement that Roosevelt admitted in 1944 that he had made a "colossal mistake" in naming me in 1940. I agree with Hall that vice presidential candidates should not be picked in the Hannegan-Pauley way. Surely today no Republicans who dislike Nixon will organize a conspiracy like that of Flynn, Hannegan and Pauley...