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...Rayburn had just poured the Vice President a drink of bourbon and tap water when there was a call from the White House. Steve Early was on the wire. As he listened, Harry Truman's face turned pale. He left abruptly, saying not a word. But his sudden action spoke loudly enough. Every man in that room knew that Franklin Roosevelt's health had been swiftly declining. Said Sam Rayburn before the Vice President got to the door: "We'll all stand by you, Harry...
...White House, Steve Early took him to see Mrs. Roosevelt, and it was she who told him the solemn news...
...White House was in confusion. Cabinet members and heads of war agencies had arrived, grave and solemn-faced. Newsmen scurried about, buttonholing everyone; except for Steve Early, the White House secretariat had collapsed with grief. Shortly before 7 p.m. the Trumans, the Cabinet members and other bigwigs gathered in the green-walled Cabinet Room. Harry Truman, not quite at ease, sat down nervously in a brown leather chair. When Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strode in, Harry Truman rose, clasped a Bible between his hands, stood stiffly underneath Seymour Thomas' portrait of Woodrow Wilson. The clock on the mantel...
...broke the news to the press was himself an able, veteran newsman-Steve Early. Taking over from Jonathan Daniels, his successor as White House press secretary, who was shaking and white-faced with shock, Early quickly set up a three-way call to the press associations to tell them simultaneously: "Here is a flash. The President died suddenly early this afternoon...
Then, as nearly every accredited correspondent in the capital crowded into the White House press room, it was Steve Early who climbed up on a leather chair, and in an even, taut voice gave the press a chronology of the President's last hours...