THE CABINET: The Little Cabinet
There is a Cabinet, of course, and some say there is a Kitchen Cabinet, but it is not generally known that there is also a " Little Cabinet" composed of the undersecretaries of the various Departments of the Government.
Officially it is a body without any power. But it has a monthly dinner, and its function is to coordinate the Departments so that they may work as a team instead of separately or antagonistically. Neither is it as a whole a body of nobodies and underlings, for all its roster of assistants, even to the fourth power. It includes such men as Dwight W. Davis (Assistant Secretary of War), James M. Beck (Solicitor General), Theodore Roosevelt (Assistant Secretary of the Navy), A. T. Seymour (Acting Attorney-General).
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