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    "ocrText": "12:35 P.M.\nSaturday, February 16, 1946\nThe President left shortly after his\npress conference yesterday for a short trip down\nthe river. With him were Governor Wallgren, George\nAllen and four or five others. They are due to\nreturn about 2:00 P.M. today.\nIt is too bad the President was not here\nto announce the settlement of the steel strike last\nnight. I was about to go to bed at 9:00 P.M. when\nJohn Snyder called to tell me that a final settlement\nhad been reached at the Carlton Hotel and to ask me\nto come on down. I went to the White House and met\nSnyder, Swellenbach and Steelman. They were all\njubilant over the outcome of the strike negotiations.\nSince the President was away, it was decided not to\nstage a show at the White House but to make the an-\nnouncement in Room 800 of the Carlton Hotel, where\nthe agreement was signed. It seemed to be up to me\nto stage-manage the show, which I did.\nI suggested that the announcement should\nbe made by Snyder, \"on behalf of the President of\nthe United States\", that Schwellenbach and Snyder\nshould then say a few words, to be followed by\nrepresentatives of the Union and the steel company.\nThis plan was agreeable to all and thereupon (we\nwere all then gathered in Room 800) went down\nthe\nlobby and brought up the reporters and photographers.\nThe announcement of the settlement was made at 10:00\nP.M. The occasion seemed to me to be fairly historic.\nMaybe we are at last over the big hump in the way of\nfull production.\nThere is, of course, plenty of trouble\nahead. Chester Bowles and Paul Porter scheduled a\npress conference at 4:00 P.M. -- the hour of the\nPresident's press conference. I called Porter and\ntold him of the conflict. Porter and Bowles then\nset their conference for 6:00 P.M. The President\nheld his as scheduled. There was a fusillade of\nquestions - about Pauley, Ickes, wage-price policy,\nwhether or not he would run in '48, et cetera. He\nhandled the conference extremely well. The sixty-\nfour dollar question concerned the powers of John\nSnyder and Chester Bowles. The President made it\n7"
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