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    "ocrText": "Friday, February 15, 1946 (cont!d.)\nmeeting in the Cabinet Room. Present were, besides\nthose two, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, Secretary\nof State Byrnes, Secretary of the Treasury Vinson,\nJohn R. Steelman, Paul A. Porter, Attorney General\nClark, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, Economic\nStabilizer Collett, J. D. Small, head of the Civilian\nProduction Administration, and a few technicians, plus\nmyself. The President on this occasion showed fine\nleadership. He produced the Executive Order on wages\nand prices which he proposed to issue and said that\nanyone who had any objection to it should \"speak now\nor forever hold his peace.\n\"I am going to be the President of this\ncountry for the next three and one-half years\" he\nsaid, \"and by God I am going to make it click. \"\nHe added that if there had not been \"so\nmuch conversation in the papers\", the controversy\nwould have been settled long ago. He said that the\nproposed plan was workable; that it was up to those\nconcerned to make it work. Some objections to parts\nof the Order were raised by Bowles and Porter, and\nothers of the O.P.A. group, but were not pressed.\nVinson and Clark replied effectively to the O.P.A.\npeople. The President's firmness undoubtedly prevented\na major explosion. The President said he wanted all\nthose concerned in the execution of the plan to pledge\nhim full support. Paul Porter said, \"Mr. President,\nyou can count on my one hundred per cent support. \"\nBowles nodded agreement and after the meeting told\nthe President that he would cooperate wholeheartedly.\nWe had hoped to be able to give out the\nnews of a steel strike settlement simultaneously\nwith the issuance of the Executive Order and an ex-\nplanatory statement by the President. The settlement\ndid not materialize. At 9:00 o'clock I called a press\nconference and gave out the Executive Order, the\nstatement by the President and an announcement of the\nimpending appointment of Bowles as Director of the\nreestablished Office of Economic Stabilization and of\nPaul Porter as head of the O.P.A. Questions were asked\nabout the respective powers of Snyder and Bowles. I\nsaid the order would have to speak for itself. Today's\nnewspapers carry varying interpretations. It remains\n5"
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