• I Janway 2, .l940 lle"r Gonora.l CWI>Illings: Thank you for the courtee;y of your letter of December 26, trans­ '"itting the lnviU..tion of the Jackson !ley Dinner C<>mdttea of the nlatrlct of Columbia. I would ba glad to have you 8IJII, in reply to the kind message of the President, that I regret that I •ill be unable to participate 1n the bospita.llt,y of tho great Ce=crat:lc Partg bec&llSe of the tra­ ditional. functions of this dinner, and uv bigb regard for the institution of p&rt¥ responsibil:lt,y 1n the American !)Olitical e;yste2. • Sincerel,y yours, \li'a.rren k. .'~us tin Honoruble HoMr S, Cu.~lllings , Chtdrman, Jaekaon Dey ~inner Co~ulttee , Suite 76f National Press Building, f.uehington, D. 0. / ~>>Pi~\ ,. ~ ..~ .. THE WHITE HOUSE ' " ,j.!• .~ WA.tiHINGTON \) { Vv Jem>al'Y ' · 1940· I(D((lRAl(OOll FOR 'l'IIE PRESID!ll'l': Senator J~ Byrnes phoned and eaid that the Republicans al'IRly& put tbair chine out, and you bit •em a alllll.sh that registers a lcnoek..out - and you d.id that today. He said that remark or yours, 11You can't bAve your cake and eat it", was the high point or one of your groateat apoeohea. ~. E.1o1.11. Senator Cut'fey JUGt t elephoned me to sa.y ho would ciiocuaa t he Wood1r8J"Cl llflt t er after he saw fOUJ that "l'he Presi dent is k1ck1Dg 110 1n the pe.nts 1D sever al places and r am not 1n a !'riendly a tti tude•. 9~(( J. H. R, .. •• 4. 1940 .. --- MeFOrttndUJl For Geparal ).atson. llereiD 1a tho story on SBDator Gurttry before he oeea tbe President. This 1e con­ tidonUal and, or co.;,.sa, Gutroy should not jH.J<. J'amt:tG Rowe . 1r. ~ ·Y' THE: WHITE: House: WASHINGTON January 41 1940 Memorandum Fo~ !he President: ------- Senator Guffoy i'orster told me you ITimtecl me to ask Senator Guffey not to oppose on the floor the reappointment of Toe \'loodr.ard as Mar itime Co==iss1oner1 hinting at the o~ time that you ttere t hlnkiog of re­ appointinc Ouffoy1s hrothor-in-law, Carroll IO!ller, to the Inter st.:l.t.e Commerce Coumi3sion. General Watson says Senator Guffey is ~Jing to see you to­ aorrO'II' (Friday). Guffey, after several tal.ka, telephoned ""' today that he wUl probnbl,y co along on l'loodmLrd and wUl give ""' e definite ensoer to­ aorrow. Guttey ie after bie&er gmre than Woodward O..'>d wants to use him for tradlnt: purposes . Hero 1a the story: ;;oodm>rd. His opposition to Wooduord is two-fold : 1 . He says ll'oodward 1e only usefulnoso is to vote with I.alld and 'l'rllitt, forming a majority. lie beUevos tho ID!Ijority be.s done aueh to discredit tho Mmin- 1strat1on and that ifoodwnr<! is oreak-kn~ed (all of tthieb, other evidence 1nd1C4tea ic oomftWhat t~. Re claims to fear e Congressional investiga­ tion of tho Coumission. 2 . liood•'lll'<l protdsed to back 0. P. llrown, drafts­ mnn of tho prasent l.li>.~it.ime Bill, i'o~ generol counsel recently, o.nd thon ran out whon th ~ Tlhite !louoe (et tlto request of Jerry Land} backed tho prouent Cenorel Couosol. Biddl~ . The Oepnrtoent of Justtce ti.:>Ped ""' off today that Gu!'foy told Senator llughoo, ChOirman of the Conllllittee consider ing to®;(' s appointr.~Gntu, to hold up Biddle on the grow1d that he had not been consulted 1 nnd "wuoro t going to ba kicked arowtd11 • W.ddle is r eported to hnva a toted, publicly or privntely, that the Democrat ic Party should naver rel1olllinat " Guffey !'or Sona tor. Biddl.. • c V11enney. GW'tey nlso told me he would not stand i'or "nny l:m ochool pro1'esaora11 repl ucing Biddle but li'Unted •o:neone to help the Psrty. Thoro h<•S, of co~ae, been gossip tbGt you ..ould select Dean Coodrich of Nnneylvnnin Law School to replace Biddle, but he ITMted n tn:~n wilo could hC:lp tho l':l.rty in Ponnnylvunia . Beaidu the J.'act of Carroll L!lllor' s r eappointment, tho Senator proeWilably lcnor1 a he ia vncy we<>Jc in Pennsylvania oocause all tho leaders 11r0 lliCiinOt hiDo , l bollieve 8everol CongreSSl080 have recant~• told General 04t son tlhlre la no hoptO for Guffey in tl'.o Pr!Jr.aries. ., jNI\ !WJ:e3 RoJu , Jr. r(, - !9'1o 1-6-40 WEKORANDUK FOR THE PRESIDENT: I spoke to Senator King. He said he agrees with you fully that the matter should be confirmed and gotten out of the way imme­ diately. He thcught that a Justice of the Supreme Court acting 1n an executive capacity on a matter that would be brought to the Supreme Court, after he had been noll1inated, and surely after confirmation, would be ex­ tremely inadvisable. - Bon. Franklln D. Roos8YIIl.t, President of tbe United states, The White Bouse, w~, D. c. Dear Jtr. Presidenta Let me sq I ll!l writinB just to acknowled&e receipt of JOUr letter. I JIJiq write rou more ~ on this subject later. I regret to sq tbat I take a 11111ob 1110re serious T.l.ew of tbe m.atter tban 10U appear to do. I reall;r tlrlnk there ie a good deal of dynatite in tbe situation. However, I do not knaw. I am very gratetuJ. for 70UT inT.I.ta­ tion to calla to see 70U and I intend to an.il. "'78elt • of 'the firet opportunity. I 110uld ask for an appoint­ ment at anoe, lmt for the tact tbat I am to see a surgeon todq llitb a view to a superficial. operation. ' Co~ yours, .,. .,. __ 1 RlaHLY 0 PU'SSOJIAL0 I .._ r••• el Jat :.:-... 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""" ..,.. _,.w__._.... ,-.w _,., .........., ,._.Twe..._,.,_. ......_,. ,_ I -.----.-.1. -~~- ~-..... --u..,..-.a..lltl.ll...............-... - ~.aa.. - .... ............. _ ,__ ..,, .... -oa..- Januar:x; 10 , 191,0 Hon . Franklin D. Roosevelt, The President of the United states, The White .House, 'Washington, D. c. Dear Mr . President• ell December 24th, I received a wire from the Rev, Rufus W. Weaver, Chairman of the Committee of t he Southern Baptiet Convention on Publlc Relations, of 'flhioh Committee I am a member, asking me if I 'IIDuld advise a protest against the action of the President in appointing »r. TSO'lor to repres~t the President at the Vatican, I did. not respord to this inquiry because I did not have the facts, I had read 1n more t han one newspaper statenents to the effect that you had appointed lAr, Taylor as your envoy to the Vatican with the rank of Alnbassad.or, but I did not belleve that this was accurate, I am sure you are advertent to the attitude of Baptists and. others on the subject of official recognition of liis Holiness, the Pope of Rome , I do not think objection could be made to your sending a messenger or representative t o the Vatican in order to keep in touch with t he Head of the Catholic Church because of his extraordinary position and the possibiU.ty that he may be the means of restori.J'l8 peace, but serious objection 110uld be made to the appointment of an envoy to the Vatican by the President with the status of Alnbassador. I am sure there is no reason why I should now undert ake to state the grounds for such objection, as doubtless you are just as familiar with thel!l as I am , 1!80' we not expect that you will clear this matter by a simple stat... ent that Mr. Taylor has been designated by you to go to Rane and get 1n touch witb the Pope by way of expressing the profoUIXi interest of the President and this country in restoring pe~~lv.and that he 1.8 being sent 'llholl,y by reason of the e:xtrao ry opportunity 'flhich it is thought the Pope m80' have, either now or later, in instituting negoti~ tions? I t hink our people would be able to make the distinction as between a personal messenger under the circumstenoes and any­ thing like offioiel recognition of the temporal power of the Pope, \ .- =:-..--::: ......,.;::;.-==..w.