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        "Bankhead, John Hollis, II 1872-1946",
        "Foster, William Z., 1881-1961",
        "Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975",
        "Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982",
        "Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree), 1889-1951",
        "Leahy, William D. (William Daniel), 1875-1959",
        "Davies, Joseph Edward, 1876-1958",
        "Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946",
        "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953",
        "Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950",
        "Hatch, Carl Atwood, 1889-1963",
        "McKim, Edward D., 1895-1969",
        "McCormack, John W., 1891-1980",
        "Snyder, John W. (John Wesley), 1895-1985",
        "Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949",
        "Biffle, Leslie L., 1889-1966",
        "Lucas, Scott Wike, 1892-1968",
        "Gillette, Guy Mark, 1879-1973",
        "Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964",
        "Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961",
        "Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940",
        "Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951",
        "Hassett, William D. (William David), 1880-1965",
        "Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008",
        "Sparkman, John, 1899-1985",
        "Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965",
        "Pine, David Andrew, 1891-1970",
        "McKellar, Kenneth Douglas, 1869-1957",
        "Hill, Joseph Lister, 1894-1984",
        "Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-1995",
        "Williams, Roger 1604-1683",
        "Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973",
        "Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956",
        "Abd al-Ilah,‏ Prince,‏ ‎ 1913-",
        "Connelly, Matthew J., 1907-1976",
        "McCormick, Robert Rutherford, 1880-1955"
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    "ocrText": "-3-\nDaughter was in a very unsatisfactory humor. I hope - sincerely hope, that this\nsituation (my being President) is not going to affect her adversely. My great\npredecessor had a lot of troubl e with his family. Most all of 1 em sold him down\nthe river and when they weren't selling him, they \"sold\" the country. But at that\nI sympathize with them. They were handicapped too. I'm trying to see that they\nget the same just treatment that other Americans get.\na\nI'm always so lonesome wh en the family leaves. I have no one to raise/fuss\nover my neckties and my haircuts, my shoes and my clothes generally. I usually\nput on a terrible tie, not even Bob Hannegan or Ed McKim would wear just to get\na loud protest from Bess and Margie. When they are gone I have to put on the\nright one: S and it's no fun.\nWent to church this morning and beat the publicity boys. Walked across\nJackson Park with no advance detail and slipped into a rear pew of St. Johns\nChurch without attracting any notice whatever. Don't think over six people rec-\nognized me. Several soldiers and sailors stood and saluted me as I walked across\nthe park but the re were no curiosity seekers around, and I enjoyed the lack of\n1 em.\nHad dinner on the south porch all by myself. It is a beautiful outlook\nacross the White House lawn to the Jefferson Memorial with the Washington Monu-\nment rising just to the left of the picture. And the Sabotage Press represented"
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