THE PRESIDENCY: One Year After

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

To celebrate the end of his first year in office President Roosevelt went to a vesper service in Washington Cathedral at which Bishop Freeman preached a New Deal sermon deploring the "moral laxity" of recent years. In the evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a dinner at the Mayflower Hotel given jointly by all members of the Cabinet, in lieu of ten separate dinners held in other years. All ten members of the Cabinet, nine of their spouses (only absent spouse: Paul Wilson, husband of Madam Secretary Perkins), the Vice President, the Speaker, the Budget Director, Mrs. Curtis Dall,...

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