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    "ocrText": "- 4 -\n10:40 AM\nSenator SMATHERS to CORCORAN (Continued):\nS - I thought you were going to tell me to go over there and try to\nget $10,000 out of them now--five for you and five for me--\nC - Well, fellow, I think you ought to do better than that.\nS - And another ten next year--\nC - I think you ought to do better than that. If it comes down to cash,\nthen I think out of a thing like this you ought to have $50,000, if\nit's cash. Now if it's business, and you know whether, under the\ncircumstances--\nS - No, I don't believe--that's so long and so complicated that--\nC - All right, then. You charge $50,000 and a third of the business.\nS - All right.\nC - All right. Now, I've given you a thought and you trade it any way\nyou want to. But that's what I'd ask them for.\nS - Well, that's why I called you. They're coming to see me tomorrow.\nC - That's right. I'd want $5,000 to go down to Washington; I'd want\n$50,000 to see them through; and for whatever it's worth, a third\nof that sugar business.\n10:53 AM\nGEORGE FOLKES (phonetic) to CORCORAN. FOLKES said that the papers have\ngone to the Bureau of Personnel; that PAT HODGSON (phonetic), General\nCounsel, called MATT CORREA (Navy Department) and told him that a little\nhelp from topside wouldn't hurt. TOM said he would kick it.\n11:03 AM\nCORCORAN to ICKES' secretary. He will be at the Secretary's office at\n1 o'clock to have lunch with the Secretary. CORCORAN then spoke to\nABE FORTAS and ABE said he thought a talk to (Senator) MAGNUSON and\n(Senator) TOM STEWART would help. CORCORAN said the thing that is\nholding it up is that there is a \"terrific row about (Judge) HASTIE\n(Negro Judge in Puerto Rico) again and the CIO is going in full tilt\non him and it's complicated the situation all over hell.' CORCORAN\nsaid he would see ABE when he comes over to have lunch with ICKES\nand will explain it to him because, \"I know the whole situation.\"\n11:30 AM\nCORCORAN to BEN COHEN, State Department, 2795.\nT - BEN, can I see you for five minutes tomorrow at your apartment?\nB - What?\nT - Can I see you down in your apartment tomorrow morning before you go?\nB - Well, I won't be leaving here until Monday--Sunday night at the\nearliest--I haven't decided yet. I might be going up Sunday night.\nT - Well, I cleared somebody through DONALD's (RUSSELL ? ) help. The\nthing I told you I was going to try to clear. I cleared it upstairs.\nB - What was that?\nT - About HOWIE (CORCORAN). I merely want to show you. the letter we\nagreed on. What time do you get down in the morning?\nB - I usually leave somewhere between 8:45 and 9:15.\nT - All right. I'll get down there at 8:30.\nB - You sure that's no trouble.\nT - It's trouble, but I'll do it. O.K. All right, sir.\nB - I mean--\nT - No, I'll get down there. Don't worry. It's no problem for me. I'm\njust kidding you."
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