Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure of Jim Forrestal closed the door on the last Cabinet member Harry Truman inherited from Roosevelt, and one of Washington's ablest officials. Forthright Jim Forrestal had angered the Zionists, embarrassed Democratic strategists with his Wall Street background, and refused to politick for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign...
...President's announcement up: he would not let Forrestal leave under fire. Last week, with the heat off, Harry Truman finally accepted Forrestal's resignation with an appreciative "Dear Jim" note. Then the President formally picked as Forrestal's successor big, beefy Louis Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime Assistant Secretary of War and the Democrats' deserving fund-raiser in the campaign...
...could criticize the qualification of Secretary-to-be Louis Johnson, whose appointment had made the most powerful job in the Cabinet one of the spoils of politics. A lifelong Democrat, he had never wavered through years of being passed by. Balked of one promised gift when Franklin Roosevelt reached over his head to make Republican Henry Stimson Secretary of War, balked again when Henry Wallace got the White House blessing for Vice President in 1940, Johnson stayed in there, ready to pitch for the party when he was called from the bench...
...subject of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Sherwood said that the late President was "the most complex character" he had even known or read about. The playwright described Roosevelt's relationship to Stalin as a close, personal one upon which the President pinned many of his hopes. It is regrettable that our relations with Russia never achieved a firmer basis, Sherwood concluded...
...present, Sherwood is working with Irving Berlin on a new play which is to appear in the near future. His book, "Roosevelt and Hopkins," has been a consistent best-seller since before Christmas...