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Tommy the Cork

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Influence-Thomas-Corcoran-Lobbying/dp/1586420860">http://www.amazon.com/Peddling-Influence-Thomas-Corcoran-Lobbying/dp/1586420860</a>

<span style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.399999618530273px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 1931, a young Rhode Island lawyer with middle-class, Irish Catholic roots came to Washington to clerk for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had earned among the highest grades ever attained at Harvard Law School and possessed a force of personality to match his intellect. Corcoran would become the most important and valued strategist in FDR’s inner circle, and, after leaving government, would virtually establish modern lobbying and influence peddling as we know it. Corcoran was the first “super-lobbyist,” and yet despite his lasting influence, his fascinating story has never been told, until now. Drawing on sources ranging from FBI wiretaps to interviews with family members, author David McKean traces Corcoran’s career from his early days with Holmes and FDR to his behind-the-scenes orchestration of President Eisenhower’s intervention in Guatemala. Corcoran’s life is peppered with political luminaries, including Henry Luce, Joseph P. Kennedy, Evita Peron, and Lyndon Johnson. McKean’s account also tells the story of Corcoran’s twenty-year romantic relationship with the exotic power broker Anna Chan Chennault, a champion of conservative Republican causes. Anyone interested in the history of Washington’s inner workings and tales of political intrigue will find this story

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<h4>Although the political fixer known as "Tommy the Cork" fell out of favor with FDR by 1941, he was a mentor to an important friend of the Lasker Syndicate, Lyndon Baines Johnson.</h4>

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Brown Alumni Magazine bio of Corcoran '22, which also celebrates Wateragte figures Charles W. Colson '53 and E. Howard Hunt '53, and American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell '42.

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Corcoran was sent to Washington in the early years of the Roosevelt administration by then-Harvard law professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a virtual a job-referral service for President Roosevelt's rapidly-growing New Deal bureaucracy. Frankfurter had been Roosevelt's legal advisor when FDR was governor of New York. Corcoran began as a lawyer in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation under Jesse Jones, who loaned him to Roosevelt, for whom he became a multi-purpose hatchet man, errand boy and fixer. Justice William O. Douglas said that "Corcoran, more than anybody else, was responsible for Frankfurter being appointed to the Court. They were very, very close in 1939. But in 1941 they were not." Douglas believes that Frankfurter and FDR's advisor Harry Hopkins ushered him out of government. (Transcription of Conversations between Justice William O. Douglas and Professor Walter F. Murphy, Dec. 17, 1962. William O. Douglas Papers, Princeton University.)

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Thomas Gardiner Corcoran (1900–1981) was one of several<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> advisors in President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D.Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_trust" title="Brain trust" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">brain trust</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New Deal</a>, and later, a close friend and advisor to President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B.Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>.

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Corcoran was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawtucket,Rhode_Island" title="Pawtucket, Rhode Island" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Pawtucket, Rhode Island</a>, and educated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_University" title="Brown University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brown University</a> (where he was class<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">valedictorian</a>)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harvard Law School</a>. He clerked for Justice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,Jr." title="Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr." style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.</a> at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" title="United States Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">United States Supreme Court</a> in 1926-27. In 1932, after practicing corporate law in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York</a>, Corcoran joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_Finance_Corporation" title="Reconstruction Finance Corporation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Reconstruction Finance Corporation</a>. When Roosevelt began to take notice of his efforts, Corcoran was given a wider range of responsibilities than his official position as assistant general counsel allowed. He organized administrative agencies for various New Deal programs and assisted in drafting such legislation as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act" title="Fair Labor Standards Act" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Fair Labor Standards Act</a> of 1938. A protégé of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter" title="Felix Frankfurter" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Felix Frankfurter</a>, Corcoran was considered the leader of the "New Dealers," a group of young lawyers that became prominent within the Roosevelt administration in the wake of the renewed economic recession of 1937.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

Much of his work during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New Deal</a> was in conjunction with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Victor_Cohen" title="Benjamin Victor Cohen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Benjamin V. Cohen</a>. Together Corcoran and Cohen were known as the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Dust_Twins" title="Gold Dust Twins" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Gold Dust Twins</a>" and were on the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19380912,00.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,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) 100% 50%;">cover</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Time</a> Magazine's September 12, 1938 edition.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran was the outgoing yang to Cohen's shy and retiring yin. Eventually Corcoran, who as an Irish Catholic did not favor pro-British policies, had a falling out with Roosevelt.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a>

After leaving the White House, Corcoran retained enormous influence in the administration, in part because of high appointees who owed their positions to him. Corcoran went into private practice as a lawyer along with former FCC chief counsel William J. Dempsey, whom Corcoran had installed in that job in 1938. Dempsey and Corcoran managed the take-over of New York radio station <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMCA" title="WMCA" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">WMCA</a> for Corcoran's friend, Undersecretary of Commerce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Noble" title="Edward J. Noble" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Edward J. Noble</a>. This resulted in an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC" title="FCC" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">FCC</a> and Congressional investigation.

Corcoran's work after leaving government service led him to be dubbed the first of the modern lobbyists.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> From 1945 through 1947, President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Harry S. Truman</a> apparently ordered Corcoran's phones tapped.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> The transcripts of the wiretaps were deposited in the Truman Presidential library and released to researchers upon Corcoran's death in 1981. The evidence is that Truman's aide ordered the tap, but it was then rescinded by the president.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em; -webkit-column-break-inside: avoid; page-break-inside: avoid;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gardiner_Corcoran#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up^{</a>} E.T. O'Donnell's "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History"</li>

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<h4>Although the political fixer known as "Tommy the Cork" fell out of favor with FDR by 1941, he was a mentor to an important friend of the Lasker Syndicate, Lyndon Baines Johnson.</h4>

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Brown Alumni Magazine bio of Corcoran '22, which also celebrates Wateragte figures Charles W. Colson '53 and E. Howard Hunt '53, and American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell '42.

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