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political interposition of one person or another.

Interviewer:

Bob Hannegan?

Perkins:

Well, possibly Hannegan. Possibly other people who were bored with Wallace.

Interviewer:

Byrnes?

Perkins:

Oh, Byrnes, certainly. I mean, the people who were bored with Wallace. That was one of the reasons I warned Wallace not to go to China. These people could get in their licks. I knew they were standing around waiting to get in their licks against him.

Interviewer:

This brings another question up too, which is part of the same question, and that is this new-group that was coming in to power, under Roosevelt--men like Leo Crowley, Ed Pauley. Harry Truman's rise in prominence as a Senator.

Perkins:

Well, Harry Truman's rise to prominence as a Senator was deserved. He did well, and he got a seniority appointment to an important committee, and he did well at it.

Interviewer:

And then, the use of Byrnes. Vinson is another newcomer.

Perkins:

They'd been in the place--not in the intimate circles,





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