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    "ocrText": "12:23 PM\nCORCORAN to TOM CLARK (Continued):\nCLARK:\nYou can do that any time.\nCORCORAN: All right. Let me come in right after luncheon then tomorrow.\nCLARK:\nYou don't have to call me.\nCORCORAN: O. K.\nCLARK:\nSay, have you heard anything about this SMATHERS' boy (Former\nSenator WILLIAM H. SMATHERS of New Jersey)?\nCORCORAN: Well, I'm interested in him for this reason. I think an\nawfully lot of people have always felt lawfully sorry for the\nSenator--you know--that includes a lot of people that you want\nto have good friends of yours and that are good friends of\nyours--like HUGO BLACK and that crowd. SMATHERS, you know,\ncomes from Alabama. He's lawfully close to LISTER (HILL?) and\nhe's awfully close to the rest of them. I have a hunch that\nthe Senator himself sort of plumbers (phonetic) things a little\nby talking too much, and all the rest of it. But all of that\ngang have always felt terribly fond of him and he's an lawfully\ngood ally. So when he came in all out of breath the other day\nabout this problem of his nephew and all the rest of it and\nasked me to call you, I called GRACIE (STUART' Secretary to\nTOM CLARK). I told GRACIE afterwards that I simply had to do\nit. Since then he's been in again. I think it's something\nthat can be worked out. I think--and I'm talking sheer politics\nnow--I think it's something that's probably worthwhile trying\nto work out. But when you say do I--I don't know the boy from\nAdam, TOM. I just know the old Senator from New Jersey, that's\nall.\nCLARK:\nWell, I tell you. PEPPER called me and told me he'd like to\nget him down there as Assistant U. S. Attorney and--or up here--\nthat then he--I suppose it's non-confidential--he said he had\nin mind he might run for Congress. (Against Congressman PAT\nCANNON of Florida).\nCORCORAN: That's right. He looks just like Congressman LYNDON JOHNSON.\nDid you see him? He isn't quite as good looking as LYNDON.\nCLARK:\nHe's a little younger but very much alike.\nCORCORAN: That's right.\nCLARK:\nSo I got hold of--at that time BARD (former Assistant Secretary\nof Navy) was over at Navy and so he told me it looked like they\nmight be able to get him out --that he was being transferred to\nJAG (Judge Advocate General) office. So I didn't hear anything--\nBARD went on out the other day I called over and talked to\nARTEMUS GATES (Assistant Secretary of Navy) and then STRUV HINSEL\n(phonetic) called me and he said that the boy was only 31 or\nsomething of the kind, and they couldn't let him go, and I said,\n\"Well, the boy tells me that he's really not doing work that\nhe's capable of performing.\"\nCORCORAN: He was the Provost Marshal down at Cherry Point (Marine Base)\nwasn't he? Something like that?\nCLARK:\nOh, he don't do a damn thing. As a matter of fact, TOMMY,\nthere's hundreds of them in the same goddamned shape.\nCORCORAN: I know it. That's where I think your happiest hunting ground\nis over there."
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