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        "Griffis, Stanton, 1887-1974",
        "Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972",
        "Lewis, Fulton, 1903-1966",
        "Bowles, Chester Bliss, 1901-1986",
        "Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971",
        "Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969",
        "Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959",
        "Trohan, Walter J. (Walter Joseph), 1903-",
        "Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969",
        "Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964",
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    "ocrText": "Nov. 18, 1952\nMy dear Henry:\nOr should I say Dr. brady ? I've just read your Saturday Evening Post\npiece about the trials of an Ambassador. To me it is a most interesting article\n-\nfrom the appointee's viewpoint.\nI wonder if you'd be at all interested in the viewpoint of the one who makes\nthe appointment ?\nWell here goes, whether you are or not.\nYou were a most able and efficient representative of the President in India.\nIn fact you were so good that it was decided to send you to a real trouble spot -\nGreece. Another remarkable record was chalked up and then came Iran. That\nSoviet crack about blood and Mrs. Grady by the Soviets got you. Henry I wonder\nif you have any idea of that same propaganda machineis attacks on the\nPresident of the United States. I wonder if you realize what Winchell, Pegler,\nPearson, Fulton Lewis, Trohan, Roy Howard and the unspeakable Hearst have\nsaid and done to the character and private life of one Harry S Truman?\nSitting at the President's desk, surveying world situations when a man stands out,\nhe's used on hard, thankless assignments. He becomes fed up, frustrated and\nthen comes - a Saturday Evening Post article - a justification, maybe a sop to his ego.\nWhen George Marshall was Secretary of State I asked him to give Stanton\nGriffis a diplomatic post. He didn't want to do it - finally sent him to Poland.\nAbout six months after that the great General came in to see me and said\nthat we were in trouble in Egypt and he needed a tiptop man there. He asked if I'd send\nGriffis - and then said \"now laugh if you like\", When that job was cleaned up I\nsent Griffis to the Argentine and then to Spain. Then he went sour - and I didn't\nblame you ? \"The life of a trouble shooter is not a happy one\""
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