THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 11, 1933

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¶ The last passengers to ride with President Roosevelt in his specially-built touring car, in which he had driven from dawn to dusk during his stay at Warm Springs, were Mrs. Roosevelt and her two inseparable companions, shaggy-haired Nancy Cook and schoolmarmish Marian Dickerman. With these the President drove to the Warm Springs railway station last week, through avenues of cheering neighbors and rows of khaki-clad CCC foresters. His fellow-travelers thought he had taken on a little weight.

As far as Atlanta the President was accompanied by Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution and Publisher John Sanford ("Major Jack") Cohen of the Journal. Publishers Howell & Cohen are pillars in opposing camps of the Georgia Democracy. Between them President Roosevelt passed a political peace pipe.

Next day the President was back at his desk in Washington, where he found that the gossip currently to the fore was that the "social control bloc" of young liberals in the Administration was chafing at his hesitancy to push longview radical reforms.