The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. This Biblical quotation might last week have served as an epitaph for the famed White House Spokesman, born 1924, died 1927. He was brought into being by Washington correspondents, who, forbidden to quote directly what President Coolidge said at bi-weekly White House conferences, invented the Spokesman as their authority.
Last week, for the first time in many a month, the "Spokesman" received no mention in conference reports. Though laymen failed to note his demise, Democratic editors and politicians cheered his death,...
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