The President's Week

Last week the President:

P:Signed a bill extending his extraordinary wartime powers through 1945.

P:Signed another bill making it a crime to publish anonymous political statements about any candidate for Federal office.

P:Approved the billion-dollar postwar flood-control bill--after first making it plain that he still wanted separate creation of a Missouri Valley Authority.

P:Decided, during a luncheon with Vice President-Elect Harry Truman, to wear a business suit rather than formal attire at his fourth inauguration.

P:Sent Christmas greetings to the armed forces, to wounded service men, and to the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls and other organizations of which he is titular head. He personally presented 258 White House employes with a Christmas card, and a scroll bearing his D-day prayer in red, blue, black and gold letters.

P:Looked forward to toasting the nation in eggnog, and to reading Dickens' Christmas Carol to a family group which would include five grandchildren, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, Daughter-in-law Ethel du Pont Roosevelt.

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