PRESIDENT AS SECRETARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 11

PRESIDENT AS SECRETARY

A suggestion, that -the - continuation", v~ of the New Deal-foreign and domestic /% policy could be best assured by Fresi? -;i' dent Roosevelt serving in the Cabinet-.^ of a Democratic successor being" advanced in Washington"' says the :^ London "Daily Telegraph." It- is ,puit:^ forward by some of the. younger mem- \." bers of .the New Deal inner circle as an alternative to a third term .of,, office f for Mr. .Roosevelt. The,-suggestion isr that he should become either Secretary _ r of State or Secretary-of the^Navy. His\.| chief-role would -thus-i>e as adviser oiv.f United States' relations with the outside' r world. "Politicians dismiss the idea ss\'-l far-fetched, while jprominent New,; V Dealers" still ~ hope "that the President '< will serve £t third term--!; There is no ( >;^ precedent for a former President^;! serving in the Cabinet As a Cabinet' Minister Mr. Roosevelt'would over- ,' shadow his successor in the office of 4 President and politicians object to this. V It is precisely-for this reason that the ~;. scheme appeals to those.'who/feel that j-r only Mr. Roosevelt could ■: guide thes^ country safely during, the 'troubled^, years immediately ahead,'but.who, at" " the same time, do fcot\.wishi c£nstittt- y tional precedents to be shattered,