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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n3:56 PM\nTOM CORCORAN to BEDELL MONROE ( Continued):\nTC - But what we need is, we need this fellow that you are going to see\non Monday. We need him to keep people's courage up and if we keep\nthe courage up we're going to win this thing sure as hell.\nBM - That's right.\nTC - And we also ought to see to it that he's, he's had a great deal to\ndo with the appointment you and I were discussing last night.\nAnd\nhe has said that he was going to back the New England people.\nNow\nthe New England will be all right. Frankly, he's a great friend of\nthe fellow who was licked in that state through the efforts of this\nother one and the point is he ought to help us knock off this new\ndangerous one on the ground that if it wasn't fitting to help the\nfellow who isn't going to go into it and isn't going to run again\nthat fellow shouldn't be hurt by specific recognition by this\nadministration of the fellow who, by somebody who helped knock off\nMr. B's friend last time. O.K. Now, are you going to be here on\nMonday?\nBM - I'm going to be in New York but the thing is specifically being\nhandled.\nTC - Yeah, where can I reach you in New York?\nBM - At the Ritz Tower, TOM. Now, one more thing, TOM. A couple of\nour people think that I ought to go over and have a little chat\npersonally with MR. STOKES and take exception to a few of the\nthings he said as a matter of record. Now, I wondered myself--\nTC - As a matter of record? Who, MR. POGUE?\nBM - No, MR. STOKES.\nTC - No, never fool with that guy.\nBM - Well, that's--I wanted your opinion.\nTC at No, I'm very sure of that.\nBM - Because no matter how much truth I could tell him it wouldn't do\nany good because he has already printed it. If he'll print it\nwithout any more looking into the truth than he did, or attempting\nto do it,\nTC - No, the only way to handle a guy like that is leave him alone.\nBM - I think so, too. You know, our friend FULTON (LEWIS), if we wanted\nto stir the thing we could make quite a play because you remember\nthe ex-governor wrote a very threatening letter--\nTC - That's right. Now, I could handle that if you wanted to.\nBM - I was just wondering. Everything looks right now on the surface in\nthe papers as if well we were the ones who were the only one to\nblame but I'm not so sure who paid the other side of the fence.\nNow that letter that came into the Board should be public property--\nTC - That's right.\nBM - And I'm not so sure that FULTON couldn't take that up and say, \"Look,\nhere's a guy that threatened this and that unless favored people get\nit--\nTC - Yeah, well maybe that's the thing to do. If it goes any further,\nI'm sure it's the thing to do.\nBM - If that could be done, TOM, I think it would be tremendous help and\nin other words would provide--you were talking about back-bone--\nit would scare some of these guys from playing that way which was\ndone deliberately to try to--"
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