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...blast, in pain and befuddlement. The Party's strategists picked themselves off the floor and felt themselves gingerly. It was too early to tell where the fractures might show up in the congressional elections in November. But the air was heavy with gloom. National Chairman Bob Hannegan and his able young assistant Gael Sullivan got on the telephone as soon as the dust had cleared. They called many a local Party bigwig. Some were ready to hang out the crepe right away, but many others thought they had suffered nothing worse than sprains and minor dislocations...
National Chairman Bob Hannegan, in & out of the White House all week long, turned up once with a whole swarm of 21 freshman Democratic candidates. Former Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies dropped by, announced that he was bullish on Democratic prospects...
...Postmaster Smith was fired. His appointment was withdrawn, and he was told to make way for one Walter Menefee, 53, who had been deputy U.S. marshal at Springfield (85 miles from Clinton). There was no doubt that Menefee had the post. His credentials were signed by Postmaster General Bob Hannegan...
...changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated for modern Washington. Wrinkled old Admiral Leahy no longer sees the President regularly. Even National Chairman Bob Hannegan has had to take a seat somewhat to the rear...
...Truman made him special presidential representative to study the liquidating of war agencies. Liquidating jobs was more in George's line, some Washington figures like Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan suspected...