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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON February 19, 1947. MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE MATT CONNELLY: Dear Matt: 3-7-47 The President may be interested to see how his Civil Rights-Committee is taking him off the hot seat. Day before yesterday there was this brutal lynching in South Carolina. They immediately moved in on it. Stare 502 DAVID K. NILES Administrative Assistant to the President S. TRUMAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE C