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After incredible mixups David Niles got it on the last plane to reach the President for several days. We sent a wire to Mac Connolly begging him to bring it to the President's attention at once or it would surely be a pocket veto. And Florence telephoned and wired to Clark Clifford, who was her great friend and the President's counsel who was accompanying him, and begged him to see that the President signed it.

The boys got the message and the bill was signed at last, on June 16, 1948, and just escaped the pocket veto.

That's an exciting story.

Isn't it exciting! We drew one deep breath and then started work on a deficiency appropriation for it in the Senate, because the House was hopeless because of Kieth's promise to Scribner; Kieth being the chairman of the subcommittee on appropriations wouldn't have thought of going back on his word.

We finally got Oscar Ewing to reverse the Bureau of the Budget, which did not want any more money for a bill. Ewing and Sheely went up on the Hill within 24 hours to testify before the Senate committee for only about nine million dollars. The Congress was in a turmoil to get through with everything and adjourn. Norman Winter went down to hear testimony and we thought we'd get around three million from the Senate, but the