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...Secretary Slemp slipped into the White House Office Building for a day on returning from Florida to clean up his desk and leave it neat for his successor...
...first, he had to take advice, but did so with some hesitation. He appointed C. Bascomb Slemp as his Secretary to handle a number of political problems. He leaned on the arms of Secretaries Mellon and Hoover, but, when tax-reduction was proposed, he let Mr. Mellon float it as a trial balloon with tacit consent, before determining how strongly to support...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a farewell dinner to C. Bascom Slemp, who retired as Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...Representative Sanders of Indiana who retires (voluntarily) from Congress in March, and is then to become Secretary to the President, began to spend a few hours a day at the White House to tide over the period between Mr. Slemp's exit and his own official entrance...
...Presidential Secretary Slemp, on the eve of retirement and a two weeks' vacation in the South, bade farewell to White House correspondents. Said...