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CITIMINAL
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
Dept. of State letter, 12-23-272
RECORDS
SERVICE*
-2-
By NLT- He 9 NARS Date 4-27-26
I told the Senator that the President had called me this morning and said
that the day before yesterday Kee had reported to him the trouble they were
having, and wanted to know if the President should have the meeting tomorrow.
My judgment was that we should finish on the amendments, take it up with Kee
and perhaps have a meeting with Connally and Vandenberg. Then if they at-
tacked the amount, that would be the time to call everyone in and take up the
matter of the amount. I told the President that if he called a meeting now,
that would push him too far.
Senator Connally agreed with me that we ought to proceed just as far as
possible before the meeting was called. Connally said that if we could satisfy
the public on everything else, we could win out on the amount. It is his belief
that the Congress will not quibble and temporize over the amount if every. -
thing else is satisfactory. Connally said he did not think we ought to crowd
these meetings except among ourselves.
I said I would let him handle it on the Hill, and that when we run into trouble
on the amount, the President could step in.
I then telephoned the Vice President to get his views on this matter. I
reviewed what had happened, substantially as I did in my conversation with
Connally. I said that at the meeting of certain Congressional leaders which
the President held on Monday, certain Republican members had raised objec-
tions as to the breadth of the President's powers contained in the bill. I said
that Louis Johnson and I had agreed that we would rewrite certain provisions
of the bill concerning the President's powers, but not making any changes in
the amount, redefining the nations, and then have another meeting and see
if we could not get bi-partisan agreement on it. I said that the President
wanted the Vice President's views as to whether or not it would be wise to
defer the meeting.
Barkley agreed that it would be wise to defer the meeting|and to have
all the points boiled down when the President calls the meeting. The Vice
President said he did not think that not calling the leaders in would be any
violation of his implied agreement to do so, but that he would check with
Senator Lucas and see if he was correct on this point. He mentioned he
would also speak to Rayburn, but I said I thought Judge Kee was consulting
with Rayburn.
I said I could not see any purpose in the President's calling the leaders
in in an atmosphere of disagreement, to which Barkley agreed.
SLCHE
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