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...abrupt reversal of form, proposed a reorganization of the RFC along the lines recommended by the Fulbright report (which he had called "asinine" only a few days before). The new plan would establish: 1) an independent RFC (not in the Commerce Department, as Truman had originally proposed), 2) a single RFC administrator replacing the present five-man board, 3) a statutory board of review-all urged by Fulbright...
...report was asinine. In fact, the only objective of the report seemed to have been a reflection on the President himself. He had never brought pressure on the RFC, on any other agency except in the public interest. There may have been some mistakes; the man who makes no mistake is the man who never does anything. He just couldn't get what they were driving at, said Truman. As soon as the chairman got back to town-he left town when he found out the President wanted to see him-maybe he could find out what they were...
...fire. On Capitol Hill, angry Senators immediately announced that they would pursue their investigation of the RFC to the limit. This week Truman defiantly replied by renominating every one of the five RFC members. From Miami Beach Chairman Fulbright said that he left Washington not because he knew the President wanted to see him (he hadn't heard he did) but to fulfill a speaking engagement of several months' standing. "I do not wish to seem disrespectful to the President," said Fulbright, "but this statement of the President is not true...
...RFC. Young's 1950 income, according to his own advance estimate, touched the neighborhood of $60,000. The work left him time for various extracurricular activities. He was advance man for Vice President Alben Barkley's cross-country political tour last fall, maintained daily long-distance contact with the President and National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. Through it all, Lauretta Young held on to her $4,700-a-year post as secretary to the President's secretary...
Last week a special Senate subcommittee gave Merl the Milkman the recognition he deserved. The investigators, led by Senator Fulbright (Dem., Ark.), reported that they had found the RFC's multimillion-dollar operations ridden by "favoritism" and dominated by outsiders wielding undue influence over RFC officials. White House Aide Donald Dawson, a shrewd veteran of 18 years in Washington's bureaucratic jungle was exercising "considerable influence" over certain RFC directors and had "tried to dominate" the agency from his White House perch. But, the Senators added, "the individual named most frequently in the reports of alleged influence...