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Walter Power was one of Jack’s drivers during his 1946 campaign for Congress.<\/p>\n

During the last days before the June Democratic primary, he was sent down to New Haven to retrieve reprints of the Readers Digest<\/em> article that had been printed about the PT109 incident. The campaign had sweet-talked the publiishers into printing 100,000 copies and they were shipped by train from Philadelphia and had gotten side-tracked somehow in the train station.<\/p>\n

Powel drove to the train station and in the middle of the night went through locked train cars and returned with a portion of them to allow volunteers to start addressing and mailing them.<\/p>\n

[41, p. 539]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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