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...Democrats had other troubles. Their big city machines had collapsed or sprung dangerous leaks (see below). Defeat had accentuated bickering and bad blood among party regulars. Suddenly everybody was after National Chairman Bob Hannegan's scalp (while Bob hurried to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital with a dangerously high blood pressure...
...cabinet room of the White House he faced them, nine whom he could trust: his special counsel Clark Clifford, Postmaster General Bob Hannegan, Attorney General Tom Clark, OPA Boss Paul Porter, Under Secretary of State Will Clayton, Under Secretary of the Treasury O. Max Gardner, OWMR Boss John Steelman, Agriculture's Robert H. Shields, OPA's Richard Field...
Party Chairman Hannegan asked in agony: What would be the political effect of higher prices? And what about public reaction to the President reversing himself right after proclaiming that he was against decontrol of meat (TIME...
...White House, Harry Truman probably did not need any polls to show him that times were tough. He politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...
...short, quiet David K. Niles, one of the few shrewd politicos left in Washington from Roosevelt days, this situation called for fast action. He had also handled the H.oly Land problem for F.D.R. Niles now urged Politician Truman to do something at once for the Jews. Bob Hannegan thought it was a fine idea. The President decided to act-even at the risk of international repercussions...