Summary of Conversation Between Bartley Crum and Louise Bransten

CONVERSATION BETWEEN BARTLEY CRUM AND LOUISE BRANSTEN September 28, 1945 CRUM: I'd been in Washington a week ago Friday and I saw the President, and he was talking to me and wanted to do something, and I said, well, you wouldn't after next Monday, and he asked me what it was and he said, "Oh, I know about that. Rosenman told me about that." He said, "I think your worries will be over in about two weeks." He said, "Didn't I say we didn't like Franco?" I said yes, but I'm speaking on the same platform as Lasky. "Oh," he said, "judging by what I read these British labor guys are saying, I'm much more left than they are." BRANSTEN: That's no fooling either. CRUM: Isn't that funny? BRANSTEN: Listen, Bart, what about a Washington job? CRUMs I turned them all down. BRANSTEN: You did? CRUM: And I know I'm right. I did tell him (referring again to his conversation with the President)-he asked me what people are saying, and I said they are saying, Mr. President, that your administration is doing an awful lot of double-talk and there's a joke around Washington that you have become the great Missouri compromise. BRANSTEN: Did you really, Bart? CRUM: Yeah, and I told Rosenman that and I told Hannegan that, too. BRANSTEN: What did Truman say? CRUMs Truman said, "Well, they'11 find out that I mean business." BRANSTEN: Fine. Wonderful.