Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. October 20, 1945 CO SUMMARY 10:42 AM (QUINN) SHAUGHNESSY to TOM CORCORAN. CORCORAN asked, "Who came in talking oil to you?" SHAUGHNESSY replied that it was NORMAN MYERS (phonetic), who represents Standard oil of California. CORCORAN asked if he (MYERS) was scared, and SHAUGHNESSY replied that "they" are very uncertain and scared, and that they are all coming to town next week; that the whole oil industry is coming in next week ostensibly to break up the Petroleum Industry War Council with a farewell dinner for ICKES and DAVIES, but that their real reason for coming is to try and get this bill through. SHAUGHNESSY said "they" know CORCORAN is in the picture. CORCORAN said, "Am I in the pic ture? I'm not in the picture. But I'm going to be in the picture." SHAUGHNESSY asked CORCORAN to keep this all under his hat because he (SHAUGHNESSY) wants to "keep that pipeline open." 10:55 AM McCLINTOCK unable to get NELSON ROCKEFELLER at Circle 7-3700 in New York, spoke to his secretary LIBBY SHIMWELL who said ROCKEFELLER will be in about 11:30 but has to go to a luncheon right away. McCLINTOCK will call him Monday. 12:34 PM TOM CORCORAN to Senator BURTON K. WHEELER. BW - Say TOM, EDWARD (WHEELER, son of Senator WHEELER) called and he wanted me to get in touch with you. What is the situation? TC - Did Admiral CARTER call you? BW - No, he did not. TC - All right, I'll go back at it this afternoon. The situation frankly is that--and you'll understand that I'm talking carefully over the telephone--the fellow at the top, my friend, is going to avoid this any possible way he can. There are people inside the Department, little boys of a certain faith, who are pretty smart cookies, and you keep throwing the thing up and throwing it up. He's sure that he can handle it. Now, he's got to--and as he said, and I'm passing it on to you-he'll get the thing nailed down before he goes away next week for good because he's going away on the 28th of October out to look at the bases. And so he'll nail this cold. But he told me that you understood he was sure of the position that he was in--that he was going to get this done, but he didn't want to be quoted as saying yes or no or anything else because of the trouble he has inside. And I know his office did send orders to CARTER yesterday to talk to you. I'll pick it right up again on Monday morning. All right, sir. (Re discharge of ED WHEELER from Navy.) BW - Goodbye, TOM. 3:43 PM JOE PANUCH (O.W.M. and R.) to TOM CORCORAN. PANUCH states he is trying to "unscramble" himself "in OWMR and get over to State." CORCORAN asks