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...only one of Cordell Hull's top subordinates left in his job was able Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, who continues in charge of the Department's liaison with Congress, and who has always worked at a faster pace than his older colleagues...
Franklin Roosevelt replied in kind. The resignation, he wrote, "has hit me between wind and water." To Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull is "Father of the United Nations," and he hoped that Cordell Hull would be able to preside when the first, triumphant United Nations assembly is held. The man who had directed U.S. foreign affairs for twelve years-longer by four years than any other man in history-will continue, the President said, to be a sort of White House adviser...
...Fighter. In many ways, Cordell Hull's place was unique. Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning...
...years of public life-as Tennessee legislator, backwoods jurist, U.S. Congressman, Democratic National Committee Chairman, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State-Cordell Hull acquired a wide reputation for a single trait. Most U.S. citizens, both admirers and detractors, were convinced that Cordell Hull was a pretty tough old party who fought hard for the things he believed...
...Diplomat. The scramble for Hull's job was short, eager and one-sided. The biggest and fastest boom billowed up for OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes. The dopesters had other names, too, especially the three "Ws"-Wallace, Winant and Welles. But most of the dopesters were wrong...