Monday, Nov. 17, 1952

The Cabinet Game

On the morning after election, Washington quit playing the parlor game of "guess-the-electoral-vote" and switched to a new game: "guess-Ike's-Cabinet." These were some of last week's liveliest guesses:

P:SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman.

P:SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: 1) Dewey; 2) Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Ike is hoping to find a top-level businessman for this job.

P:SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: i) Iowa's Hanford MacNider, former head of the American Legion and a combat brigadier general (and D.S.C. winner) in World War II, loyal Taftman in the primary campaign; 2) New Mexico's Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War (1929-33) and thrice-defeated candidate for U.S. Senator.

P:SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: Ohio's David Ingalls, the Navy's only World War I ace, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (Hoover Administration) and Bob Taft's primary campaign manager.

P:SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE: 1) Ex-Undersecretary of Air John McCone of Los Angeles; 2) President C. R. Smith of American Airlines, wartime operating head of the Air Transport Command and Ike-minded Texas Democrat.

P:SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY : 1) Ex-Federal Reserve Board Chairman (1936-48) Marriner Eccles, who was dropped by Harry Truman because he opposed inflationary Treasury Department policies; 2) Boston Lawyer-Banker (Old Colony Trust) Robert Cutler, one of Ike's campaign advisers; 3) Colorado's Senator Eugene Millikin.

P:ATTORNEY GENERAL: 1) California's Governor Earl Warren; 2) New Jersey's Governor Alfred Driscoll.

P:POSTMASTER GENERAL: 1) G.O.P. National Chairman Arthur Summerfield; 2) Senator Fred A. Seaton, Hastings (Neb.) newspaper publisher and one of Eisenhower's campaign advisers; 3) Herbert Brownell, New York lawyer who is Dewey's able political strategist.

P:SECRETARY OF INTERIOR: 1) Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, a close Ike friend; 2) Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie.

P:SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE : 1) Kansas' Representative Clifford Hope, a savvy farm spokesman and Ike's campaign adviser on agriculture; 2) Governor Val Petersen of Nebraska; 3) Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas.

P:SECRETARY OF COMMERCE: 1) New Hampshire's Governor Sherman Adams, Ike's personal and trusted campaign adviser; 2) Washington state's Walter Williams, chairman of the National Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon and onetime chairman of the Committee for Economic Development.

P:SECRETARY OF LABOR: Minnesota's ex-Governor Harold Stassen, who worked hard on Ike's presidential campaign after the Stassen-for-President bubblet collapsed in Chicago last June.

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