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...grumpy king's observation fits the theory of government often used in Harry Truman's Administration of George III's former real estate. A good recent example: the association of Donald Dawson, still the White House patronage dispenser, and his two good friends, William E. Willett and Francis P. Whitehair...
...June 1948, Dawson had the President name Willett as one of RFC's five directors. A regular luncheon companion of Dawson's and of E. Merl (Mink Coat) Young's, Willett was willing to do some favors in return. To give big loans to politically correct companies and individuals, he switched RFC examiners and overrode his own reviewers. After the Fulbright committee's investigation of the RFC, the Senate, in February 1951, refused to confirm his appointment...
Soon, Dunham testified, he was caught up in a social whirl. Before he had been in his office four days, the ubiquitous Merl Young called on him. He soon found, said Dunham, that Dawson, RFC Director William E. Willett, Merl Young and Young's employer, Rex Jacobs, a Detroit manufacturer, were "all close friends, and that I was obviously regarded as a new member of their social group." He lunched with them and dined with them. Sometimes they were joined by Democratic National Chairman William Boyle...
Houses & Horses. So it went. Chunky Roy Fruehauf, the trailer manufacturer, who was worried about $3,000,000 still owed him on a Lustron contract, testified that Rosenbaum had once told him he had RFC Directors Dunham and Willett "in his hip pocket." Rosenbaum bounced back to the stand and denied he had ever said it. Young tried to explain that he is now in the insurance business, claimed he saved one client $40,000 a year on insurance. How? Young couldn't say-he didn't know much about insurance...
...left to one of RFC's own harried directors to give the committee one solid bit of testimony to chew on. The whole RFC board had been "bad," declared Director William E. Willett and he guessed that he had been just "as bad as the rest...