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...busy-buzzing week at the White House, cramjam full of people and small incidents yet free from the strain of any really pressing situations. President Coolidge seemed exceptionally affable-save for a moment here & there (see "FESS INCIDENT")-and unwontedly loquacious-except at times such as when onetime (1919-21) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas talked at length about the necessity of President Coolidge's renomination. The President's sole reply to his caller's long speech was: "How's crops...
When the little bald man went into the President's office, White House newsgatherers paid no special attention. That particular little bald man was always going into the President's office. He was President Coolidge's great & good friend, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who used to be a college president* and still looks like one though he long since mastered the art of big politics-mastered it so well that he has come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from...
When he came out again, Senator Fess looked overheated. His eyes danced and his collar looked too big for him. The merest cub of a White House newsgatherer could have seen that something had happened, that Senator Fess had something more than usual to say. He was, in fact, going to reproduce for the newsgatherers the conversation he had just had with President Coolidge...
...telling him," said Senator Fess, "that I was more convinced than ever that the people of the country would demand his re-election so strongly that the party could not think of nominating anyone else and he could not refuse to accept the inevitable, regardless of his personal choice to retire to private life...
...goes into history as "the Fess incident." From it, future U. S. Presidents will learn a lesson about the embarrassments of amity. For in spite of President Coolidge's "heat," in spite of a tart suggestion by President Coolidge that Ohio politics* colored Senator Fess's interpretation of the country's "strong demand," Senator Fess continued to predict more freely than ever the renomination of the man he calls on so often...