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        "Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965",
        "Marshall, George C. (George Catlett), 1880-1959",
        "Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986",
        "Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981",
        "Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965",
        "Connally, Tom, 1877-1963",
        "Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977",
        "Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959",
        "Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969",
        "Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972",
        "Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-",
        "Daniels, Jonathan W. (Jonathan Worth), 1902-1981",
        "Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953",
        "Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967",
        "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945",
        "Bevin, Ernest, 1881-1951",
        "Bidault, Georges-Augustin, 1899-1983",
        "Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945",
        "Hannegan, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1903-1949",
        "Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Arthur Hendrick), 1884-1951",
        "Clayton, Will (William Lockhart), 1880-1966",
        "Jackson, Samuel Dillon, 1895-1951",
        "Pavlov, Vladimir, 1915-1993",
        "Maisky, Ivan Mikhailovitch, 1884-1975",
        "Presidential campaign, 1944",
        "Reconstruction (1939-1951)",
        "Reparations",
        "United States-Soviet relations",
        "World War, 1939-1945",
        "Potsdam Conference, 1945"
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    "ocrText": "WHY TRUMAN IS PRESIDENT\nRegarding the Roosevelt letter -- on the train the President stuck\nit inside Hannegan's pocket so Hannegan could not see it. Roosevelt\nknew he would not dare pull it out and read it as if he were doubting\nwhat Roosevelt had written. Ed was dying to see it but Roosevelt stalled\nthem both with pointed questions until the train left.\n\"It was as if he could not get rid of us fast enough\". After\nreading the letter, Hannegan was so embarrassed he did not want to show\nit to Ed at first, so they began a hot potato routine with the delegates,\nboth stalling saying the other had the letter, etc, etc.\nObviously, President Roosevelt had never given Hannegan a prior\nnote regarding Truman (as Jonathan Daniels alleges) or they would not\nhave needed one when Roosevelt came to Chicago.\nThe reason Pauley was so insistent on getting this letter -\nSenator Jackson of Indiana had told Pauley two days before that the\nPresident had sent Jackson a letter on Wallace, thus confounding everyone."
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