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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n9:07 AM\nCORCORAN to Senator LISTER HILL (Continued):\nThey continued as follows:\nTC - Now, the other thing I wanted to tell you about was about JOSH\n(Senator JOSH LEE). Incidentally, I know you will be pleased. We\nwere up at the SMATHER's (Senator WILLIAM SMATHERS of New Jersey)\nin Atlantic City over the weekend. And I managed to get a honey of\na case into BILL SMATHER's hand.\nLH - Good. Damn if I were BILL I'd ask you back.\nTC - No. I'd done it before that. Just between you, me and the bedpost\nit will give BILL twenty thousand bucks.\nLH - What?\nTC - That's a good fee.\nLH - Jesus, that's a good fee. Damn right that's a good fee.\nTC - But that's not for you to tell him or anyone else.\nLH - I wouldn't breathe it to him.\nTC - But I was awfully glad that I got it done. Because I want to try to\ntake care of the gang a. little. Now, I'm on the problem of taking\ncare of another one of the gang, and that's JOSH.\nLH - What are you going to do with JOSH?\nTC - Now, there's been a terrific fight inside the C.A.B. over EDDIE\nRICKENBACKER. EDDIE is riding high now through HARLLEE BRANCH (C.A.B.),\nand JOSH stepped up a little to EDDIE. But the point is WELSH POGUE\n(C.A.B.) is going to leave. He's going with an air line. And there\nis the problem of who's going to be chairman. Now, JOSH ought to be\nthat chairman.\nLH - He ought to be that chairman.\nTC - He's a Senator, and he is in line for it. But the EDDIE RICKENBACKER\ncrowd will make a terrific drive to keep JOSH from being chairman.\nNow what JOSH hopes somebody could do--and immediately I thought of\nyou--that you could talk to LES (BIFFLE) and ask LES to make sure of\nit that a Senator stepped up; that you knew WELSH POGUE was going;\nand that you'd hope that he would keep in mind and in the mind of\nhis \"friend\" that after all JOSH is a Senator, he's the ranking\nmember of the board, and that JOSH ought to step up to that job. Now\nthat's an appointment from the President, you know?\nLH - Yes. I know it is.\nTC - The chairmanship is.\nLH - That's right.\nTC - And I thought in the next couple of days that you would take a\nwhack at it.\nLH - I will take a whack at it.\nTC - Because I'd hate to see JOSH stepped over.\nLH - Well, I'll get right at it. LES is going to Europe, between you and\nme, about Saturday night I think.\nTC - Then you'd better move on it fast.\nHILL then stated that JOHN SNYDER (O.W.M.R.) and SYMINGTON (Surplus Property)\nwere going to Europe. CORCORAN told him that the real reason for the trip\nwas to see EISENHOWER and to dispose of surplus; also that the trip was a\n\"junket.\" HILL stated that he would like to take a trip over with CORCORAN."
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