THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: May 21, 1934

The goldfish-like life of the President of the U. S. bothers Franklin D. Roosevelt-less than it has many of his predecessors. Last weekend, however, he felt the need of some real privacy. Accompanied only by Mrs. Roosevelt, her friend Miss Lorena Hickok, his personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain...

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