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    "ocrText": "PR SUMMARY\nWashington, D. C.\nJuly 15, 1945\n11:00am AL\nto PRICHARD. AL said he had talked to HAROLD last night\nand HAROLD had a wonderful idea. AL said, \"of course, I don't\nknow what's going to happen with the judge (Judge VINSON ?), but\nit doesn't seem to me that he's going to be able to hold both of\nthem awful long (Treasury and OWM & R).\" AL said that HAROLD\nhad the idea of proposing WAYNE (WAYNE COY? Former Assistant\nDirector of Budget Bureau, and now Assistant Editor of Washington\npost), who, AL said, is in very good with JIMMY (BYRNES). PRICHARD\nsaid he doesn't think it will work because he doesn't think the\n\"head man\" will do it. AL said he thought PRICHARD might ask\nHANNEGAN and see what he thinks of WAYNE. PRICHARD said he could\ndo that but that HANNEGAN hardly knows WAYNE. PRICHARD said he\nwill talk to HANNEGAN. AL asked what the judge thinks of WAYNE\nand when PRICHARD said the judge likes him all right, AL said,\n\"Well, hell, between the judge (VINSON) and the justice (BYRNES)\nhe can get a lot of backing. HAROLD SMITH (office of Economic\nStabilization and Bureau of Budget) would back him. AL said he\nthought the old judge, SAM (SAM ROSENMAN ?), would back him. AL\ncontinued that \"SAM is OSCAR'S (cox ?) candidate, and PRICHARD\nsaid, \"Well that won't do. It won't be done either. ROOSEVELT\ndidn't even want to appoint him to stabilizer.\" AL said, \"The\npoint is, I think you can really bring more heat to bear for WAYNE\nthan you can on any other guy, and he's a better guy than any\nother guy. And as a matter of fact, if there's any danger of this\nbeing made soon, one way of sort of sounding this thing out would\nbe to get word to BEN (BEN COHEN) PRICHARD said he would see\nwhat he could do. AL said he thinks the best way is to talk to\nHANNEGAN first. PRICHARD said he had already talked to HANNEGAN\nand \"he wants him to keep both.\" AL said, \"Well, that's all\nright, but it won't last,\" and PRICHARD agreed. AL said that the\njudge and the justice and HAROLD SMITH would be for WAYNE and\nPRICHARD said HAROLD SMITH wouldn't make any difference. AL said\nhe thinks HANNEGAN should propose the thing rather than the judge\nbecause \"this business of selecting a successor is always psycho-\nlogically bad.\" PRICHARD said he'd see what he can do.\n12:18pm\nLORETTA LARKIN (Phon.) to PRICHARD. She said she was at the office\nand that a Senator JOHN HASTINGS (State Senator ?) had tried to\nget PRICHARD last night. She said HASTINGS is the \"gentleman that\nMr. HANNEGAN discussed with you who is responsible, I guess, in a\nway, for having sent the gentleman in yesterday. It's something in\nconnection with that.\" She said that HASTINGS had a Mr. CHADBORN\n(Phon.) with him and PRICHARD said he talked with CHADBORN two or\nthree times yesterday. She said they took a plane to New York\nlast night and that HASTINGS' phone number in New York is Rhine-\nlander 4-0881."
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