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...Busy. As one of his first acts, President Truman had invited his old crony, Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, to sit with the Cabinet, because of McKellar's position as Senate president pro tern. It was commended in some quarters as a further presidential gesture of friendliness to Congress. But others saw it differently. Cried the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "A hack sits in the Cabinet . . . Senator McKellar is a vindictive peanut politician ... a grudge-bearing politician with an incurable itch for spoils. . . . President Truman is too big and busy a man to have to waste his time listening...
...Strengthened White House relations with Congress by inviting his old friend and ex-colleague, Senate President Kenneth McKellar, to sit in at Cabinet meetings. ¶ Broadcast a message to U.S. armed forces throughout the world, assuring them that he would not falter, telling them: "We are depending on each and every...
Kenneth D. McKellar, President Pro Tem of the Senate, will become President of the Senate. Physicians who attended the President were identified as Dr. James Paullin of Atlanta and Dr. Howard Bruen...
...Fight. Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker protégé of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target. Before the Agricultural Committee, the fight was led by Tennessee's knob-nosed, choleric Kenneth McKellar, an old Williams foe, and no holds were barred...
...McKellar accused Williams of being a Communist sympathizer, a waster of government money (particularly in NYA), and unqualified for the job. Soon McKellar produced a letter from a clergyman charging that Williams, onetime student for the Presbyterian Ministry, had "renounced the Divinity of Christ." Then Williams' religious and political beliefs got a going-over. The Committee rejected his nomination...