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Letter to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan from J. Edgar Hoover
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Letter to Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan from J. Edgar Hoover
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Summaries of Conversations Files
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JOHN EDGAR HOOVER
DIRECTOR
Federal Burrau of Investigation
United States Department of Justice
Washington, B. C.
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
August 10, 1945
BY SPECIAL MESSENGER
Brigadier General Harry Hawkins Vaughan
Military Aide to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear General Vaughan:
I have learned from very confidential sources on the
West Coast, which I have found heretofore to be reliable, that
Bartley C. Crum is advising his friends that he is to be se-
lected by the President to succeed Mr. Ickes as Secretary of
the Interior. Mr. Crum has also advised friends on the West
Coast that he has been contacted by the National Broadcasting
Company which has requested his appearance on a nationwide
hook-up at the time his name is submitted to Congress for
confirmation. In view of this information, I wanted to invite
your attention to the attached enclosure relating to transcripts
of conversations obtained from a highly confidential source,
with which you are thoroughly familiar. You will observe that
beginning on page 6 of this memorandum there is a discussion of
the fact that "Bart" Crum is a candidate for the post of Secre-
tary of the Interior and that the discussion considers the
possibility of diverting Bartley Crum's interest to seeking the
California senatorship left vacant by the death of Senator Hiram
Johnson.
In view of the actions of Bartley C. Crum and the conver-
sation in the attached transcripts, I am attaching hereto as
a second enclosure a copy of a memorandum which summarizes
information contained in the Bureau's files relating to the
background and activities of Bartley C. Crum. I thought that
this material would be of interest both to the President and
to you.
With expressions of my highest esteem and best regards,
Sincerely,
Attachments
J
edgan Hoover