PRESIDENT’S SWIM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 11

PRESIDENT’S SWIM

How Mr. Roosevelt Keeps Fit President Roosevelt began the year 1935 tn better physical condition than when lie entered White House, his physicians report. 11116 is remarkable, tor the Presidency has been called a job which invariably kills its man, but Air Roosevelt, witn the most trying conditions ol any President since W ilren to cope with, defies prophecy and logic and looks better every year. Dr Ross Mclntire, ehiel White House physician, declares that this is duo to tlie regular routine which the President follows. The routine ic : 8.39, awake aud breakfast m bed, with a lew morning papers. 10.30, across to tne executive ojfices, where a full day is invariably arranged by the President’s secretaries, often necessitating lunch on a tray at his desk. 5.30, a swim in the pool constructed m the White House specially for the President. 6.45, rest. 7.45, dinner. 10.30 to 11, bed Like the King, President Roosevelt is an enthusiastic stamp collector aud often spends the final lew minutes before retiring with his collection. In addition to routine, the President believes in vacations. He allows nothing to interfere with bis holiday plans He went fishing off Florida in the Astor yacht in .'(arch last year, when Congress was on its worst behaviour; he took a long Pacific cruise in midsummer when the industrial situation was most acute, and spent the remainder of the summer iu his country home at Hyde Park. He took a third holiday in the autumn. Another reason lor the President’s good health is that he allows nothing to worry him. He can meet every situation with a laugh—from the abandonment of the gold standard down. It is an attitude which some of his critics find intensely irritating, but it keeps him in fine shape.