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Hanrahan had plenty of potent political backing, including Postmaster-General Bob Hannegan's. So did Jim Caffrey; he had Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley in his corner. After hours of wrangling, the commissioners put in a call to the White House. President Truman made up their minds for them. He wanted Caffrey...
...What appeared in Missouri to be unsmart local politics looked no brighter from a national viewpoint. It was known that the President had talked over his Slaughter scunner with National Chairman Bob Hannegan and other Party brass. But it seemed clear that the decision to go on the warpath personally was Harry Truman...
...last week the man at the top of the Administration's blacklist of Congressional bad boys was Missouri's Roger Caldwell ("Duke") Slaughter. National Chairman Bob Hannegan sizzled and sputtered about him. Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke of him, in private, as he would of the lowest form of Republican. Harry Truman was a friend no longer...
Decision. Harry Truman ignored the senatorial advice. But he listened to his political henchmen-to National Chairman Bob Hannegan and Crony George Allen. Politician Hannegan argued that a veto would salvage some vestige of the labor support the President had lost when he rushed to Congress with his own draft-strikers measure on "Black Saturday." At week's end, in Washington's 90° heat, the President called off plans for a cruise, toted a briefcase full of reports to the White House living quarters...
...World Bank. The $30,000-a-year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...