Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time and spend the rest of his life fishing, Marty replied, "I feel the same way -in fact, I feel like doing it right now." Thorez, still beaming, jingling loose change in his pants pocket, was surrounded by a group of newsmen. "Truman's idea of sending Vinson to Moscow was very smart," he said. "It made a deeper impression on the American people than the political experts thought." 'Everyone laughed and smoked; the room was warm...
...Without an explanation," said Reston, "the mere fact that the President has proposed to send Vinson to Moscow would have no meaning at all ... Straight news reporting of such stories leads them to uses for which they were never intended." Sometimes, he said, the A.P. removes one slant from a story only to give it another: "When [the A.P.'s] Jack Bell reported, "That's the first time I ever had a lunatic engineer," Mr. Dewey said sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously...
Scores of names had already been suggested for their places. Everyone from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to ECA's Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman had been mentioned as a possible replacement for George Marshall. Ex-M.I.T. President Karl Compton suddenly popped into the picture as a possible next Secretary of Defense. As available as Available Jones was Harry Truman's old crony Mon C. Wallgren, who had just lost his job as governor of Washington. And there was even talk of bringing back the old sulphurous, incorruptible Harold Ickes...
When and under what circumstances it will become fruitful to resume negotiations with the Russians is a difficult matter of judgment. Truman and his party, I feel, are more likely to probe this matter carefully than would be the Republicans. The Vinson gesture was abortive because the President failed to clear it with the Secretary of State, with our principal allies, and with the Republican representatives of a policy which must continue to be bi-partisan. If it had been so cleared, there is much to be said for the proposed action. It indicates, I think, that the President, while...
Administration officials, not quite recovered from the Vinson fiasco, did their best to keep the whole affair a family secret. Mr. Steelman picked himself up, brushed himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...