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...remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson, a good Democrat, to talk to Stalin...
...Clifford saw it, the President would have nothing to lose. If Fred Vinson, in man-to-nTan fashion, could get some reassuringly peaceful word out of Stalin, the whole world would cheer. It might even be the miracle needed to keep Harry Truman in the White House. Jubilantly Mr. Truman approved of the idea...
...while Harry Truman was campaigning, in upstate New York. He returned to Washington in time to meet Marshall, debarking from the "Presidential Special." The President turned away reporters with a gay wave. Didn't he have something to say about the Vinson affair? He grinned: "Not a word...
...into conference, to emerge with two formal statements for the press. The President had called him home, the Marshall statement said, to talk things over. The President was chiefly concerned about "the intransigent attitude of the Soviet government during the debate on the atomic problem." They had discussed the Vinson matter. "The President decided it would not be advisable to take this action. The matter was then dropped." The Secretary had heard talk of a split between the President and himself. "There is no foundation for this," he said...
Instead of ripping into Harry Truman for I'affaire Vinson, Tom Dewey decided to let the President's action speak for itself. It was good judgment and good politics. He would gain both votes and stature by refusing to follow Truman's lead in playing politics with the nation's foreign policy...