Word: rosenman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift interplay of forces began when the plane bringing Henry Wallace back from Chungking touched the runway at Fairbanks, Alaska. Roly-poly Samuel Rosenman, the President's speechwriter and confidant, who is now filling much of Harry Hopkins' old role, was already burning the long-distance wires. He wanted, he said, to see Henry first. But Henry Wallace refused to say anything until he had talked to Franklin Roosevelt...
...soon as the Vice President got back to his Washington apartment, Sam Rosenman was on the phone again. Henry Wallace flatly refused to talk. The President himself intervened, and Henry Wallace gave in, agreed to lunch with Rosenman and Harold Ickes...
...Time for Politics. Not many mouthfuls were down when Rosenman began by reminding Wallace that both he and Harold thought he was a great man; that he had done a great job in many ways. The Vice President, who is shrewd as well as stubborn, knew what was coming. Shyly he looked down at his plate. But Henry, said Sammy, in effect, there's an awful lot of opposition to you, and well, it looks now as though you might be something of a political liability to the President...
Henry Wallace, traveler to China, looked up in surprise at this mention of politics. In a tone of gentle rebuke, he said he just did not understand what they were talking about. For himself, his mind was on China, on the world. Baffled, Sam Rosenman went back to his food...
Some Congressmen think the President has been needled into baiting them by the White House Inner Circle: Harry Hopkins, Sam Rosenman, Felix Frankfurter et al. Last week they were privately blaming the ideas in the tax veto message on Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul, the words on Judge Rosenman. The facts: the message was no hastily okayed product of a Presidential ghost, no result of a sudden fit of Presidential temper. Mr. Roosevelt had been poring over the document for more than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson...