Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through eleven hours of argument, the nine Justices were studies in intense interest. Earl Warren, his bulk (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) dominating the bench, sat erect in the high-back chair that had been used by the late Chief Justice Vinson (Said Warren to a court official who asked him if he wanted his own specially built chair: "Pshaw, that one's plenty good enough for me!"). Occasionally he asked a quiet question to clarify a point. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, as if playing pizzicato violin to Warren's cello, turned and twisted in his specially...
Truman said he received an FBI report on White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...
Since the FBI's evidence against White was not sufficient to indict him at that time, Hoover spoke of three alternatives Vinson and Clark planned to present to Truman: 1) Fire White without explanation; 2) Ask him to resign without explanation; 3) Allow him to take the new post, while the Attorney General continued the investigation and the Treasury Secretary supervised the appointment of reliable men around White. Truman adopted the last alternative, but White somehow was permitted to surround himself with suspected Communists...
...agreement to promote Harry Dexter White and at no time did the FBI give its approval to such an agreement. Such an agreement ...would be inconceivable." The FBI, he maintains, does not advise but informs However, it is clear that through his reports, and through private conversation with Vinson and Clark, Hoover did advise the Administration of White's dangerous activities and warned them against advancing the security risk to the highly sensitive post of the Monetary Fund...
...when he shifted White from the Treasury to the International Monetary Fund. Given the situation that existed at that time, the Truman Administration's laxity was not in appointing White to a new position, but in allowing him to recruit security risks for his staff, Schlesinger says. Somehow, between Vinson's resignation and John Snyder's appointment, the wires were carelessly crossed...