The Hoover Week

Back from Florida in rare good spirits, President Hoover began 1933 by consenting to see the Press for the first time since Sept. 13. Said he to the newshawks assembled in his White House office: "Happy New Year, and I believe you will have one. I have no doubt you will find plenty of news in the next twelve months and that, after all, is the main object in your lives." P:"The proposals to stop the reorganization of government functions which I have made is a backward step," exclaimed President Hoover when he discovered Congressional Democrats were planning to void his shuffle of 58 executive agencies and then give President Roosevelt even larger powers to make similar changes. "The same opposition has now arisen which has defeated every effort at reorganization for 25 years. . . . The proposal to transfer the job to my successor is simply a device by which it is hoped that these proposals can be defeated. . . . Either Congress must keep its hands off now or they must give my successor much larger powers of independent action than given to any President if there is ever to be reorganization." Unmoved, the Democratic House prepared to nullify Hoover reorganization.

P: President Hoover sent the Philippine Independence Bill on a round of the War and State Departments before giving it what all Washington expected to be a thumping veto.

P:An unbalanced budget usually begins to stir President Hoover into alarmed action about half way through each session of Congress. Last week astute United Pressmen at the White House thought they saw the customary signs, forecast one more special message to Congress in which the President would urge an evening up of income and outgo without making specific recommendations on how this was to be accomplished. The Associated Press accepted a routine denial by the White House Secretariat that any such message was contemplated.

P: President Hoover asked Congress for an extra $300.000 so his successor might be represented at the Conference on Disarmament and World Economics.

P: Into 81 filing cases White House clerks last week began to pack the private papers of the President preparatory to his, removal elsewhere. President Hoover paused to watch the work, riffled old letters between his fingers, chuckled as he read bits here & there.

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