Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With President Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General...
"Softest Job." When a congressman from Iowa, Mr. Good frequently heard people describe the position of Secretary of War as "the softest job in the Cabinet." After six months' service, he wonders what these people meant. No small assignment was it for him to memorize just the list of things...
Another Good assignment: Contact-man for the President with Congress.
Another Good assignment: To make speeches for the President. This duty Secretary Good takes most conscientiously. He has traveled far and made ten major speeches since March 4 to such bodies as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Red Cross, the War Mothers, the Republican ''Birthday Party" at Ripon...
From an exterior viewpoint, "Jim" Good represents an element in the administration satisfying to a large portion of the public. The West, of course, is pre-eminently satisfied by claiming the President. Among the ranking Cabinet members, the East can look with pride upon the Messrs. Stimson and Mellon at...