Word: janizariat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the President's janizariat told him, then, that this was too much; he would have to take a stand at last. Wallace must go. But Harry Truman hesitated. Was not Wallace the great friend of organized labor, of leftists, liberals and C.I.O.'s P.A.C.? He had already invited Wallace to the White House; perhaps a heart-to-heart chat would settle matters...
...Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy...
...White House, as one of the "anonymous assistants," had moved swarthy, soft-voiced David K. Niles, political tipster and fixer extraordinary, a smooth operator who wangled $500,000 from the United Mine Workers for the 1936 Democratic war chest and who was undercover man for the New Deal janizariat in many a quiet operation during the 1940 campaign. Niles's presence close to the President has a plain meaning: Mr. Roosevelt needs an able watcher -to keep a finger on all important political developments, large & small...
...prominence of Coy and Smith underscores the fact that there is no longer such a thing as a little cohesive group of New Dealers who can be called Braintrusters, or the Janizariat. To tackle the great problem of his first term, Depression, the President had a powerful braintrust: Raymond Moley, Donald Richberg, General Hugh S. Johnson, George Peek, Rexford Tugwell-all now off the scene. The so-called Second New Deal-Robert Jackson, Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, William Douglas. Corcoran, Cohen-are separately employed to the point of scatteration...
...President turned again to business, finance and industry for help in the defense crisis, as the defense program became not just one new bureau but the whole Washington operation, the mutually distrustful Janizariat found a new unity, began to scheme how to regain their lost control...