Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. June 19, 1945 11:26am WORTH CLARK to CORCORAN. WC--That event is scheduled for sometime in August, probably the first part, right after his return. TC--Who's gonna be it. Do you know? WC--No! He's having a hell of a time with it. JOE AMINEE (Phon.) wanted it because JOE figured his chances of getting elec- ted out there were bad, however, I don't understand that, and he approached the boss on it. I think TRUMAN is playing along with him. He didn't want to tell him no but the fellow I was telling you, I talked to this morning, said JOE couldn't get it because TRUMAN just figured he couldn't appoint another western man and even for a position like that. I imagine he got that direct, but now JOE isn't sure he wants it because things look brighter out there. The matter is very much up in the air. Now about that same time or going to the Navy -- TO JIMMY. Probably SULLIVAN is going in there. Old man STIMSON will go but they may let him doddle along for a while rather than hurt his feelings, but they have definitely decided to put SULLIVAN in. Les need be said TRUMAN had in mind putting him right in immediately and just accepting JIMMY's See all the resignations are over there. He just writes a letter of acceptance. TC--But the first thing is definite. WC--Yeah! But he cautioned me this. He said now, WORTH, you know things change and plans change, but that is scheduled, that is the program now. TC--Sometime at the beginning of August. WC--Sometime in August, but probably at the beginning. That's the way he put it. He said everything is definite and settled but he said now of course things are happening every day and he said you are never certain on this matter, and so Hereis some more little gossip for you. Oh, yes! When I passed that information you gave me, LES said, well of course he is glad to know that but he said that is ridiculous and he said there is one thing that is certain, that it is certain on JIMMY. And then he told me that MCKIM They just had to get rid of him. He was getting drunk all of the time and going around to parties, patting women on the "fanny" and bragging around in company how, by god, he is running the White House and a bunch of silly stuff and so they just took him and put him over. That is the story on that, and WRENCH, he just laughed about that. He said that the cock story was kind of an cock-and- bull affair. He couldn't understand it and WRENCH said he has always been around there. He said he just didn't know. He told me CONNELLY was really doing a swell job