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...callers, many of them merely PRs (payers of respects). He sandwiched pressing domestic matters between his frequent conferences, disposed of many routine chores. Twice he called in his Congressional Big Four. He had his Cabinet in for lunch, later for a meeting. He gave Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan an unscheduled hour in which, presumably, the surgery to end the pain of the Pauley appointment was approved...
...Chicago Sun's Tom Reynolds reported that Harry Truman had told Democratic leaders that he did not want to run in 1948. The President laughed off the story. Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan denied it categorically...
...Capitol Hill increased. The House, by overwhelming votes, bypassed his labor fact-finding bill and overrode his opposition to a bill returning the U.S. Employment Service to the states. Finally, Harry Truman decided to do something about the White House-Congress impasse. Listening to advice from Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, he delegated Hannegan to form a team of expediters to try and get one measure at a time through Congress...
...last year's Democratic convention, he was picked by National Chairman Robert Hannegan to preside, did his bit for the Hannegan-Hague-Kelly steamroller. After the first ballot for Vice President-on which Henry Wallace had a lead-he promptly called for ballot No. 2, giving Wallace supporters no chance to regroup. One result: Jackson was an early caller at the White House when President Harry Truman moved...
...administrators to the job of pushing and pulling balky Congressmen toward the legislation he wants. To each of his executive family the President had assigned the responsibility for specific parts of his program. To each (except Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, Attorney General Tom Clark and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan) the President had sent a letter outlining the legislation for which he would be held accountable in researching and drafting bills, presenting testimony to committees, promoting the legislation through Senate and House...