Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. July 15, 1945 4:27 PM LAUGHLIN CURRIE (former Special Assistant to the President) to CORCORAN, to say that JOHN SERVICE (Subject in JAFFEE Case) called him today to say that "his man" had been trying to get him to go back to work and that he, CURRIE, had told him that he had better get in touch with CORCORAN first. They agreed that he probably would get in touch with CORCORAN first. CURRIE then asked CORCORAN to keep in touch with him in connection with "that big sugar construction job", because that is what he will eventually be doing abroad and he has some prospects who will want some sugar "refaction" (phonetic), if CORCORAN does go into it. He said that ERIC STAUB (phonetic) told him that CORCORAN might be going into that. CORCORAN said that was right and that BILL (YOUNGMAN) was working on it. CORCORAN said that he did not know too much about it and that BILL was away on vacation but will be back next week. O.K. 4:56 PM JOE PANUCH (?) (Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion) to CORCORAN. PANUCH asked if CORCORAN had talked to LEO CROWLEY Sunday, but CORCORAN said he would see him tomorrow morning. P - Well, one of his guys came over and wanted to see the report, a fellow that's attached to us, in this inter-Agency committee. So, I gave it to him. C - Good. P - So, I think it is a good thing to follow it up with him on, with LEO. There's no use letting these long hairs put any fire under him. C - Yeah. P - Number Two: ELLIOT has been on my tail for a long time, to attempt to arrange a liaison between him and (Senator) BRIAN McMAHON. He's playing around with these politics up there in Connecticut and so forth and so on. I've laid off doing that on account of BILL not liking MCMAHON. C - That's right. P - And his being a son of a bitch and all that sort of thing, and kept away from him and didn't get involved with him, we went to school together up at Fordham--he was about four years behind me and sort of looks up to me as an upper-classman. But I've laid off him because of bad medicine. But I've done it indirectly by tossing this guy TOM DODD (phonetic). C - That's the district attorney up at P - Yeah. I've introduced ELLIOT to TOM DODD, who is a hack and figured if he wanted a conduit that was, maybe, as good a conduit as any. However, he is parleying the thing and TOM is wants to DODD is going over to Europe. TOM CLARK (Attorney General) wants him to go to Europe on ROBERT H. JACKSON's staff, and, of course, what TOM uh TOM (DODD) has got aspirations up in Connecticut, as you know, and what he'd like to do is get a little tinge of military service, you see? Well naturally ELLIOT figures that if he were put on CLAY's staff (GENERAL LUCIAN D. CLAY, Deputy Director, Office of War Mobilization) or something like that that would be pretty good. And he could come back and pose and so forth as having participated in the demilitarization of Germany and so forth. Well, the only now I'm just wondering how hard do you thing I ought to go on that? See, I don't want to draw checks on CLAY unless