"PRESIDENT HOOVER"
Coclidge's Slip Of The Tongue. OTHER CANDIDATES NAMED. WASHINGTON, February 1. Much amusement was caused at Washington yesterday when Mr. Coolid?e was interviewed by journalists. They asked whether Mr. H. C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, had indicated any intention of resigning from Cabinet office in order actively to begin his campaign for the Republican nomination for the Presidencv. Mr. Coolidge replied that "President Hoover' had made no mention Gf such plans. This slip of the tongue is held in some quarters to be prophetic.
General C. G. Dawes. Vice-President, was brought into the limelight yesterday as a possible Presidential candidate when a delegation from the Women's Christian Temperance Union asked niin to express, as a Presidential aspirant, his views on prohibition.
Mr. F. O. Lowden. former Governor of Illinois, will shortly announce that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination, as the avowed leader of the agricultural sections of the country. His open advent in the arena will mark strong emphasis on the agricultural factor in Presidential politics.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 7
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