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...Vinson's Plan Revised...
...earlier plan was proposed by Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) off January 5. Vinson, head of the Armed Services Committee, called for men 17 to 19 years old to volunteer for a six-month training period, followed by another 18 months in the active reserve...
...Vinson's plan entailed the volunteering of 60,000 youths in the first few months--as many as the draft boards now call up in the same time. The plan would soon be expanded to 800,000 men a year with a possible four billion dollar expense for training them annually...
...blizzard of rumors swirled around the White House, blew out to Illinois and spread across the country. There had been talk that Harry Truman wanted Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the U.S., to run. But now Vinson's close friends said he had told the President he wants to stay on the bench. Another Justice, William O. Douglas, had written Truman a note saying he would not be a candidate. But Douglas' liberal friends insisted he is still available...
Douglas said that if President Truman decided not to run, he would have a lot to say in naming a successor. Chief Justice Fred Vinson is Truman's favorite, he said, but not too much of a vote-getter. "Truman dislikes Kefauver less than he dislikes me," the Illinois senator added...