As Vice President, Wallace chaired the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".
As Vice President, Wallace chaired the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] (BEW) as a member of FDR's secret "war cabinet".
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Roosevelt biographer John T. Flynn characterized Wallace by saying, "There was a good deal of the element of stage comedy in him - wide, queer streaks in his make-up that would excite laughter in the theater but which do not originate in any merry or comic sense in his own character and which cannot by any stretch of the imagination be regarded as funny against the dark background of the events of the time." <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Chapter 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Henry_Wallace.htm ''Henry Wallace''].</ref>