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...quiet little party, given for 48 guests by Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon at Washington's swank 1925 F Street Club, and Harry Truman was in relaxed good humor. After dinner, he sat down on a big davenport and fell into conversation with Political Columnist Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times's Washington bureau and one of the capital's most indefatigable diners-out. Truman talked easily and candidly, rambling over a wide range of subjects. What he said was wonderful, Krock told the President, and could he print it? Truman said sure...
...Krock's orotund prose, the exclusive interview with President Truman appeared in the New York Times (see PRESS...
...Center. The man he sat down to talk with, Krock reported, was "a serene President," with "undiminished confidence in the triumph of humanity's better nature and the progress of his own efforts-to achieve abiding peace ... He sits in the center of the troubled and frightened world . . . But the penumbra of doubt and fear in which the American nation pursues its greatest and most perilous adventure . . . stops short of him. Visitors find him undaunted and sure that, whether in his time or thereafter, a way will be discovered to preserve the world from destruction...
...Last Vestige. The President, as translated and interpreted by Krock, went...
...Haugen bill, but Calvin Coolidge twice vetoed it; Henry Wallace bought the farmer and got away with it. Secretary Brannan's program was an even higher bid for the U.S. farmer's favor than any Henry had thought up. Said the New York Times's Arthur Krock: ". . . no more wondrous pill was ever compounded in the pharmacy of politics." The National Farmers Union, itself an expert concocter of pills, thought the Brannan plan was really wonderful, hailed it as a "milestone." The powerful American Farm Bureau Federation thought it sounded pretty revolutionary...