Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Charlie Wilson-despite the fact that he too wanted to quit his war job and reconvert G.E.-had come to seem the villain. And Donald Nelson, fumbling feebly with minuscule moves toward reconversion (he is called "Mr. Next Tuesday" by disgruntled WPBsters) had come to seem the hero of Reconversion...
Chinese Burial. By taking Wilson's side, the President set off a startlingly loud Washington uproar. Nelson's friends -who included a group of the New Deal's most expert hatchet men-called his Presidential mission a "Chinese burial." They charged that the man who was fighting for "the little fellow" was being "sent to Siberia," had been given a "kick in the teeth...
Hastily the President issued a statement dressing up the Nelson mission as of high importance, and saying such talk was "wrong . . . unjust ... a disservice" (TIME...
...thus mollifying Nelson and his friends, the President angered Charlie Wilson. Wilson could not be sure now whether Nelson had been kicked out or not. Back to the White House went Charlie, good and mad, a hot resignation in hand. This time he meant it. "Since . . . your request that I assume direction of WPB, there has been renewed circulation ... of stories that because of my former position as president [of G.E.] ... I am opposed to reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless...
...Words." The White House did not immediately announce Wilson's resignation. Next day, as if nothing had happened, Donald Nelson finally summoned some 150 top WPB men to a long: postponed "harmony" meeting. (Many times, according to Charlie Wilson, Nelson had promised to gather the feuding staff together to straighten out the quarrels, "but always manana...