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...sitting in the offices of every policy-making official of this Government? You and I cannot excuse ourselves. We will go back to the people and they will say: 'We sent you to Washington to represent us. We did not send [Jimmy] Byrnes, or [Prentiss] Brown, or [Fred] Vinson, or [Marvin] Jones.' And you and I will have to answer to the people...
...House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women of our war economy...
...summer recess- pointing out the danger of the "inflationary gap" and asking for new taxes. By week's end he had all his financial advisers working on the program: War Mobilize? James F. Byrnes, the Treasury, Budget Director Harold D. Smith, Economic Stabilizer (and oldtime taxpert) Fred M. Vinson...
Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington...
Jimmy Byrnes only too happily handed Fred Vinson his job as OES director. Said Czar Vinson, who still had a sigh left: "I am smiling for the last time today...