The Administration: The Klotz Botch

The memo landed on the desks of Commerce Department officials from Secretary Luther Hodges on down to the Weather Bureau director, the maritime administrator and the commissioner of patents. The message was pointed: "At a White House meeting of Cabinet assistants, we have been advised again that speeches of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers do not contain sufficient reference to the President and his personal interest in, and compassion with, the problems which face the nation. Liberal quotations from his speeches, past or present, should be used ... It is also to be...

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