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cratic platform.
The President was grave as he
discussed the tax fraud inquiry by
a House Ways and Means subcom-
but said that he did not
want to commit himself on releas-
ing Justice Department files until
he has gotten the requested King
He said that he wanted to get
at the bottom of the affair, with
punishment following where guilt
was established.
Asserting that where malfeas-
ance has been proven that action
has been taken, the President
launched into his tribute to gov
workers.
In his opinion, the President
continued, the average govern
ment employe rates higher than
those of industry and business,
newspapers.
He still thinks that the average
Government employe is an honor
able man or woman and the vast
majority-more than 95 per cent
try to deliver to the Govern
ment what they are paid for and
some Of them give far more.
Notes Attacks on Himself.
Mr.. Truman then went into the
attacks on himself, which he at
tributed to some columnists.
He has previously assailed some
OF the charges as political.
The Presidents news confer
ence was the first he has held in
three weeks, and he came out on
the lawn of the Little White House
where reporters and photograph
ers were gathered wearing slate
blue Slacks and a shirt-white
with blue figures-that Me de-
scribed as a seagull shirt.
The photographers delayed pro-
ceedings for several minutes, dur
ing which Mr.. Truman exchanged
banter with the others. and then
the questioning started.
StiH Hopeful on Soviet.
Discussing the reaction in Rus
sia to his peace speech and the
tri-partite plan of the Unitedl
States. Britain and France. the
President said that no official re-
ply had been received and that
he still had hope.
He said he knew the Russian
people wanted peace. AS for re-
ports that Foreign Minister vi
shinski had said the appeal gave
him hearty laugh. Mr.. Truman
commented tartly that it was the
first time he knew of Vishinski
getting hearty laugh.
AS for a Big Four meeting, the
President said he stood where he
always had. He has said previously
that he always would be glad to-
see RuSsias Marshal Stain in
with other chiefs
Of states, but that he did not pro-
pose to go out of the Capital. And
the President has frequently re-
marked that it's these limited con-
ferences that ultimately wrecked
the League of Nations and that he
does not want it to happen to
the U. N.
Comments on Warren.
Getting into domestic politics,
the President commented on the
entry of Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia into the G.. o. P. presiden-
tial race by recalling that he said
in a hack-platform talk in Sacra-
mento in 1948 that Gov. Warren
is fine man and is a Democrat
but doesn't know it.
One more question about his
purported offer to support Gen.
for the Democratic
nomination, about which there
still is controversy, brought the
retort that he and the general
have a reputation for telling the
truth and that both have denied
it.
On domestic policies, in re-
affirming his intent to push the
New Deal program, he said he still
favored changing the Taft Hartley
Act as it stands now, but that
future recommendations would
have to await any changes made
in the new Congress.
The Fair Deal program, he said
easily. would be part of the next
Democratic platform-whoever the
candidate might be.
Disputes Hughes Biography.
The President also said that the
late Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes had recommended the
then Treasury Secretary Fred M.
VinSon for chief justice after the
death of Harlan Fiske Stone in
1946-despite a statement to the
contrary in the new Hughes
biography,
In White House conference
when he sought the advice of
Chief Justice Stones predecessor,
Mr.. Truman said, he and Mr..
Hughes went over a long field of
possibilities and that when it was
over. the venerable Hughes said
there was a man in the cabinet
eminently fitted to take the post
Secretary Vinson, who had for
merly been in District Appeals
Court.
He got the same advice from
retired Justice Owen j. Roberts,
the President said.
The Merlo Pusey biography
quotes a Hughes memorandum
as saying he had recommended
Associate Justice Robert II. Jack
son for the place.
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