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...Mark Sullivan, now famed as a political pundit, is the Jeremiah of the (J. S. Press. Thrice weekly in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and 92 other newspapers, and on Sunday in the Herald Tribune and 72 others, he croaks fearfully against the New Deal. He is an able analyst and expositor, well grounded in orthodox economics, a diligent, honest newsgatherer. But not even his great & good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways...
...Avenue home to the Hoovers' house on S Street, helped entertain the Hoover friends. When, in 1929, the Hoovers moved to the big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the intimacy continued. Never have President and journalist been closer. Timid and distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin, an authoritative Administration spokesman in his own right. Pundit Sullivan...
Last week a gleam of cheer crept into Pundit Sullivan's column as, perked up by local election results (see p. 15), he wrote: "We now know, since Tuesday, that the tide has turned, away from the Democrats and in favor of the Republicans." It was one of the first such gleams in months. Along with gloom at New Deal doings, there has lately crept into his dispatches a note of despair at his own inability to make citizens understand their peril. "No amount of explanation seems able to make the country see. . . ." he writes...
...bolster his lonely position Pundit Sullivan on occasion even invokes the verdict of history yet to come, as when he wrote last month: "I suspect historians years hence will say the election of Mr. Roosevelt, and the steps he took, amounted partly to a holding back of recovery...
...time's verdict is indeed against the New Deal, historians years hence may point to Pundit Sullivan as an authentic prophet. But certainly those future historians, searching the pages of Our Times for the record of a U. S. era, will write Mark Sullivan down as one who knew and loved that time & country well...