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    "ocrText": "3:43 PM\nJOE PANUCH to TOM CORCORAN (continued)\nwhether he has made his deal in State. PANUCH replies, \"Everything\nbut the title.\" CORCORAN: \"Have you talked with him since I talked\nwith him? What did he say? Was he mad about my butting in?\" PANUCH:\n\"No, he said, 'I don't think it's good policy to go after anything that\nis sewed up, but TOM told me about this and so far as that's concerned,\nif anything like that comes up and if you want to go after it, hell,\nlet me know and I'll help--I got a pretty good drag with BOB HANNEGAN\non these things and I think I can get in a plug on something like that,\nbut I think that stuff's sewed up. I hate like hell to lose you in\nany way but if you have an opening like that, a possibility like that,\nI'll do everything I can to help it. Things may shape around here\nanyway--something may be available here!'\" PANUCH states that the\nperson referred to just wanted to make it clear that he wouldn't stand\nin PANUCH's way. CORCORAN asks him whether he has heard anything from\nBODWIN. PANUCH says he has tried to contact him for two days in vain,\nbut will call on him again on Monday. CORÇORAN: \"Now, what can I do to\nhelp you on this thing?\" PANUCH: \"It's really down to a question of\ntitle.\" CORCORAN: \"MILLS said he'd go to town with 'whozis' for the\nassistant secretaryship--now, goddamn it, he certainly can go to town\nwith his boyfriend--the other boyfriend, for a special assistantship.\nPANUCH: \"You BYRNES?\" CORCORAN: \"Sure, now he committed to me\nthat he'd bell the cat--and do the talking. So I think you ought to\ngo up and see him--tell him you know--that I told you he'd go to town\non this thing.\" PANUCH declares that organizationally the special\nassistantship is a monstrosity, says he wrote \"him\" (MILLS?) a memo\nstating that if it caused any organizational difficulty he would be\nwilling to accept a deputyship. CORCORAN said he didn't know such a\nposition existed in State. PANUCH says that from what he has heard\nand from what TOMMY and DON RUSSELL have told him, he believes the\n\"damn thing in the War Department is frozen,\" says he wouldn't want to\nsign up with DON here and then \"knock off\" to go with BOB PATTERSON.\nCORCORAN agrees.\n9:20 PM\nGEORGE KILLIOM to TOM CORCORAN. They discuss CHARLES HENDERSON of\nFederal Loan Agency slated to move up to position of Federal Loan\nAdministrator. Their conversation continues:\nTC - I heard he was going up right away. I heard\nSNYDER was\nkeeping it for himself. And that was undoubtedly true. HUGH\nCOX who is SYMINGTON'S secretary (sneeze here)\nSYMINGTON's\ncounsel smarter than hell told me he tried to get it for\nSYMINGTON and he found SYMINGTON right in the way for himself.\nThen he told me--wants to move HENDERSON up to fill it out and\nthat the vacancy that's left is the chairmanship of the RFC and\nagain I can't tell you what that job is. That was JESSE's\ngreat job.\nGK - Ha?\nTC - That was JESSE's great job. That's the job with the real power.\nVery few people know it, but I know it.\nGK - Of course, you don't. You're not an administrator there."
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