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Interviewer:

Cabinet meeting, March 16, 1945. . . . Wickard heard you tell the President not to send the Army into the mines to deal with the coal strike and to watch out for Hillman.

Perkins:

He heard me say that? You don't mean it. And when did the President go to Warm Springs?

Interviewer:

There was a diplomatic reception scheduled for the White House on the 22nd to meet Princess Alice and the Governor-general of Canada.

Perkins:

And did he go to Warm Springs just after that?

Interviewer:

There was a Cabinet meeting on the 23rd of March. Truman came in late to say that the Senate had just defeated Aubrey Williams for R.E.A. and Roosevelt was angry and sarcastic. Do you remember anything about it?

Perkins:

I remember. I wouldn't say he was angry, but he was, “Oh, that's ridiculous, will they ever learn?”

Interviewer:

Byrnes resigned, April 2, as Director of O.W.M.R., and Fred Vinson was appointed.

Perkins:

Now, what was Byrnes going to do? Why did Byrnes resign?

Interviewer:

I don't know. Do you remember?





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