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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...
Truman's impassioned "statement of the facts" was real drama. He referred to Vinson and God, and one wonders through what magnificent self-restraint the Boy Scouts, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution were omitted...
...other hand, Judge Vinson stated that the President could be forced to sign the commission since the Senate had already confirmed White's appointment. I advised Judge Vinson and the Attorney General that the character of the evidence was such that it should not be publicly disclosed at that time in view of the confidential sources involved...
...opinion of Judge Vinson and the Attorney General, as expressed that day at luncheon, that the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General would arrange
There was no agreement while I was present between the Attorney General and Judge Vinson other than that they should see the President with the Secretary of State and suggest the three alternates mentioned above. I was not present in any discussions with the President concerning this matter...