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s ARCHIVES SERVICE" "NATIONAL RECORDS AND Tuesday, February 12, 1946 John Snyder was down in the mouth this morning because of snags encountered in the effort to draft a new wage-price policy. Chester Bowles and his group have been making trouble. It looks as if there will have to be a showdown between the schools of thought represented by Bowles and Snyder. This whole situation is reaching the boiling point. The President told Snyder to draw up a statement, expressing the views of himself, Schwellenbach, Anderson, Vinson and Tom Clark, regardless of what Bowles might think about it. Bowles could then either elect to go along or get out. The President said he was tired of temporizing with him. The President was in a highly belligerent mood. The story by Tom Reynolds came out today that the President had declared privately he did not wish to run in 1948. This I think is balderdash, built up on some indiscreet casual remark by the President that he would like to be back in the Senate. Hannegan later in the day issued a statement formally denying that the President had told a group of White House advisers he would not be a candidate for the Presidency in 1948. The Reynolds report was thrown at me in my morning's press conference, and all I could say was No Comment. The reporters remain jittery as they await some announcement on the steel strike and the wage-price policy. It reminds me of the days when we were waiting for the news of the Japanese capitulation. Saw a remarkable demonstration of tele- vision at the N.B.C. studios today. The occasion was the opening of a line for "telecasting" between Washington and New York. General Eisenhower was shown laying a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial. Had dinner last night at the Cosmos Club with Jacob Billikopf and his son David. I

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