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Heinl Radio News Service
12/19/45
It is, of course, possible if Mr. Porter leaves the Com¬ mission permanently that President Truman might appoint an entirely new Chairman but it is believed at the Commission if the President ashed Mr. Porter’s advice, the latter would favor Mr. Denny as Porter and Denny are known to be very close.
The most vocal member of the Commission, Clifford J. Durr, a Democrat, and brother-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Black, who has been active along certain lines too active to suit some of the broadcasters might have to be reckoned with. In fact, the only member of the Commission who could probably be definitely counted out would be Commissioner E. K, Jett, who has never wanted to be Chairman, and who at his own request was specifically exempted by President Roosevelt in November 1944 when Jett was temporarily appointed Chairman to succeed James L. Fly and to sit on the lid until Mr. Porter was appointed in the Pall of 1944.
Stating that the visit to the White House by Paul Porter renewed speculation that he might be named as an assistant to Presi¬ dent Truman, Edward T, Folliard of the Washington Post wrote:
"The idea that Porter be given a White House post appears to have originated on Capitol Hill. Liberal Democrats in Congress felt that he would be a valuable aide to President Truman, especially in the role of a coordinator.
•'Porter, according to his friends, would much prefer to remain as Chairman of the FCC, which now is engaged in making allo¬ cations for new FM and television stations. It has been reported that he made his feelings known to President Truman a couple of weeks ago. Thereafter the word was passed In radio circles that he would not Join the White House staff.
"Then came porter's call at the White House yesterday to fan the speculation anew. On leaving President Truman's office, he said he made a report on the recent conference at Bermuda, where delegates of the United States and the British Commonwealth of Na¬ tions discussed postwar communications rates. Porter said Mr. Trumar. was very much interested in the Bermuda conference, but others ob¬ served that the matter might very well have been covered in a memor¬ andum, "
Like the Chief Executive, Mr. Porter is a Missourian, though he is generally thought of as a Kentuckian, having been born in Joplin 42 years ago. He began his career as a reporter on the Lexington (Ky. ) Herald, but later turned to law. He came to Washington in 1953, intending to remain only three months. However, he became an ardent New Dealer and served for four years as a special counsel to the AAA in the Department of Agriculture.
In 1937 he became Washington counsel for the Columbia Broadcasting System, When the United States got into war, he became a Deputy Administrator of OPA under Leon Henderson, and it was he who set up the Nation-wide system of rent control. Thereafter he served under Fred Vinson in the Office of Economic Stabilization, where he handled matters of price policy.
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