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THE
TBOMAH
BARRY
"NATIC
ARCHIVES AR
RECORDS
U.S.
SERVICE
Truman-Bomb.
BOYER
bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb but
he gave me no details." He says it was not until the next day that
he was told enough to give him some understanding of the developments
under way.
April 13, 1945.
President Truman's appointments were:
10:15 - Secretary of State Stettinius.
11:00 - Gen. George C. Marshall.
Agmiral King.
Admiral Leahy.
Secretary of War Stimson.
Secretary of Navy Forrestal.
General Giles.
12:30 - To the Capitol for lunch.
2:30 - James F. Byrnes.
The President told me (August 6,1951) in a long comersation,
much of it about the atomic bomb, that it was, he thought, on April 13
that Byrnes, who had been Director of War Mobilization under Roosevelt
but had resigned April 2, 1945 and was succeeded by Fred Vinson, who
had succeeded Byrnes as Mead of the Office of Economic Stabilization,
and Vinson and told him for the first time something about the project
and its purpose. Vingon's name does not appear on the President's
appointment list for that day (Check this).
Byrnes had known of the atomic bomb project for some time
but in his book "Speaking Frankly" (Page 257) he said he did not
remember just when Roosevelt told him about it. He believes it was
the summer of 1943.
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