*ER had long distrusted James Byrnes and was offended by his bossy and presumptive behavior during FDR’s funeral at Hyde Park. Trude Lash took notes: Byrnes wanted it understood that he was Truman’s trusted intimate and he gave the orders. Subsequently ER told Trude that “Byrnes was extremely difficult about the arrangements. . . . He told her to ride in the same car with the new President which she refused to do. He protested vigorously” and, ER confided to Trude, “proved himself a very small human being, indeed.” Trude Lash notes, 15 April 1945, in Lash, World of Love, pp. 184–85. ER had never understood FDR’s reliance on the former South Carolina senator, whom he named to the Supreme Court (1941–42) and then asked to leave to become his principal aide. During the war, Byrnes was widely acknowledged as FDR’s “assistant president.” He attended important meetings, including Yalta; was put in charge of the Office of War Mobilization, and the home front. Truman appointed him his first secretary of state in 1945, but to ER’s relief, in January 1947, the president replaced him with George Marshall. Her feelings about Byrnes were confirmed after 1954, when as governor of South Carolina he vowed to close public schools rather than integrate them.