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...President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home, was still on deck: he would go along to the forthcoming Big Three meeting. And, to the consternation of all red-blooded anti-New Dealers, Harry Truman had even kept smart Dave Niles as a Presidential assistant...
...Mobilizer Fred M. Vinson tried to move more beef and pork to markets by broadening and upping (by an estimated $100 million) the $560 million annual Government subsidy to packers and cattle feeders. To the U.S. public, which would eventually pay the bill in taxes, he offered assurance of 1) no higher retail meat prices and 2) more meat in six months. Everybody hoped he was right...
...Fred Vinson's 8,000-word report to President Truman was titled: "The War-Phase Two." Said Vinson: "The paramount command is: win the war! Victory over Japan comes ahead of every other consideration.'' Then he drew a picture of what U.S. civilians may expect as America's full weight is thrown to the west...
...reconversion wheels turning, Fred Vinson's advice to labor and industry was: get going with as little Government interference as possible. There were still price, wage and production controls to be faced, and for a long time there would still be such controls...
More important, Washington also started the ball rolling toward partial reconversion. From grey, owlish Fred Moore Vinson, Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, came a broad plan for easing back to civilian-goods production-without interfering with supplies for the war against Japan. But the "partial" in the reconversion plan told its own story: the U.S. still had a war to win, the U.S. economy would still be largely controlled, U.S. citizens would still feel many a wartime shortage...