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...John Steelman, sometimes dubbed "Assistant President," is the man who keeps things from piling up when the boss is away. Recently, moon-faced John Steelman found himself at the bottom of a pile...
...President, well pleased, went off on his political trip to the Midwest, leaving Assistant President Steelman to bring the document to flower and deliver it to Defense Secretary James...
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
Tobin's hesitation was understandable. In all probability, the job was good for only five months. It had been hawked around to almost every wheelhorse in the Democratic stable. Harry Truman had offered it to John Steelman, to the A.F.L. Teamsters' old "Uncle Dan" Tobin, to New York's ex-Senator James Mead. Caught by surprise when Congress decided abruptly to adjourn, Truman told Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath to call Tobin in Boston and to tell him-not consult him, but tell him-that his nomination was going up to the Senate...
Hour after hour, the President's labor adviser, John Steelman, sweated through negotiations at the White House with management and labor. They came to nothing. This week, 18 hours before the strike deadline, Harry Truman seized the roads to prevent "a nationwide tragedy." He put Secretary of the Army Royall in charge of the railways, ordered the Army to operate them. Then he gave the three stubborn brotherhoods-the engineers, firemen and switchmen-until 5 o'clock that afternoon to call off the strike...