THE PRESIDENCY: Cloud

It may have been merely a cloud passing across the sun. But more than one observer noted last week that a cool wind was blowing and a shadow had fallen on the President's popularity—his popularity not with the public but with that circle of a few thousand men who constitute official Washington. To the people who voted for him last November, Franklin Roosevelt was Mr. Right, but to official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith...

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