| | Truman Library - Fisher Howe Oral History Interview |
 | | listen to the economic people, that the economic people were off doing their analysis, that the political people were off doing theirs, and that oftentimes they were operating tangentially, but they weren't operating in the same gear. |
 | | The first economic officer who had any weight at all was Ambassador Livie [Livingston] Merchant, and he was appointed as special assistant to Secretary Clayton and then went over to be Minister for Economic Affairs in Paris. |
 | | This he maintained while he was Secretary of State; and he always looked to Park Armstrong or me to get for him a view that would be free of what the political line, which had a concern of policy, was saying the situation was. |
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