The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again following the crash and also failed to increase the money supply to combat deflation, thereby allowing conditions to deteriorate further.

One of Harrison's notable moments in this role was when he informed Secretary Stimson of the successful first test of the atomic bomb in New Mexico.

"[5]Harrison and Stimson had not worked out a code for describing the test results ahead of time, so Harrison improvised the above, knowing Stimson would understand it to mean General Leslie Groves ("Doctor") had returned from New Mexico to Washington, D.C., and had reported that the tested "Fat Man" implosion-type atomic bomb (fueled by of plutonium-239) was as successful as the untested "Little Boy" bomb (fueled by uranium-235) was expected to be (prior to the test, the implosion design was expected to be much less powerful in its present form than the gun-type bomb).

The light from here to high hold refers how the detonation was visible from "here" in Washington, D.C. to Stimson's Highhold estate nearly 250 miles away on Long Island.

[3] Harrison died of a cerebral hemorrhage in New York City in 1958[3] and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.