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    "ocrText": "- 3 -\n12:45 PM\nED PRICHARD to CORCORAN (Continued):\nthey going to discuss about you in the Treasury?\" PRICHARD said he\nthought probably about one of the assistant secretaryships. PRICHARD\nsaid he didn't want the General Counselorship and CORCORAN agreed.\nPRICHARD said that the assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury\njobs are \"flunkey\" jobs. He would prefer a confirmed Assistant\nSecretary position. Those at the dinner tonight will be, according\nto PRICHARD: BOB (PATTERSON ?), TOM CLARK, FRED VINSON, TOM CORCORAN,\nand LINDEN JOHNSON and probably one or two others. CORCORAN said he\nwould try to help him become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.\nCORCORAN said, \"I will force them to put you in there.\"\n12:55 PM\nCORCORAN to BOB FOKES in Senator PEPPER's office to ask if he knew\nanything about SMATHERS (of New Jersey). FOKES said that TOM CLARK\nand PEPPER had talked about it. CORCORAN then talked with Senator\nPEPPER and the following conversation took place:\nC - CLAUDE, about young (GEORGE) SMATHERS (Former attorney in Miami,\nFlorida). I'm gonna have lunch with the Navy.\nP - Well, listen\nC - Did you get him?\n:\nP - You know, I didn't realize that JIM FORRESTAL was over with the\nPresident. I had intended to call when I noticed he had been to\ndinner with the President. Now, there is a fellow over there,\nhowever, named KENNEY.\nC- JOHN KENNEY?\nP - JOHN KENNEY. He's always been very cooperative with me and in view\nof the fact that TOM CLARK has been very much interested in the\nmatter, I can call KENNEY right now and ask him if he wouldn't\nC - Well, let me tell you another guy to call\nThere's a guy\nin\nMATT CORREA's place now in the legal assistant place to the Secretary\n(of the Navy), JOHN SONNETT, who was an Assistant District Attorney\nup in the office in New York at the same time your boy friend\nSMATHERS was down in Miami. Now, he's acting as legal assistant to\nthe Secretary right now and he's gonna see me at 6 o'clock this\nafternoon. After FORRESTAL comes back, he's moving over with TOM\nCLARK and the right way to handle this thing is for SMATHERS to come\nwith SONNETT. Get it?\nP - I get you.\nC - Now I'm wondering if you could call KENNEY this afternoon and then\ncall SONNETT this afternoon and then I'd finish it when I see him\nthis afternoon at 6.\nP - I'll do 'em both!\nC - O.K., because I think that way we can get it done but we gotta move fast.\nP - I get you. I'll call both of them right after lunch.\nC - Did you talk to TOM CONNALLY?\nP - No, I didn't yet. I had to leave there before they finished that thing\nand I've got to call back to TOM. They decided not to let anybody go\nso I'm going to have to go it on my own.\nC - When are you going?\nP - I'm aiming at the middle of August.\nC - Now you know that that's financed as a campaign expenditure."
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