Title: Topic 18: A CABINET THAT NEVER WAS
Author: Robrt Kuniegel
Last saved by: Robert Kuniegel
Company: Hair at 731

Topic 18 
A CABINET THAT NEVER WAS

ONCE in a retrospective mood, Colonel Roosevelt talked of the Cabinet he would have named had he returned to the White House on March 4, 1917.

"I should," said he, "have made Perkins Secretary of the Treasury or of Commerce.  He would have been entitled to something and could be an extremely valuable man in either place.

"I should have made John King of Connecticut Postmaster General.

"Of course there is only one man for Secretary of War — General Goethals.  I should have made Raymond Robins, of Illinois, Secretary of Labor, and Meyer Lissner, Secretary of the Interior.  That would be a well balanced and highly efficient organization."

"You have left the Navy, State, and Justice portfolios vacant," I remarked.

"Well, for Navy, Admiral Winslow if I had had to draft him.  I don't know who I’d get for State, but I know who I would like — Lodge, if I could drag him out of the Senate.  For the Department of Justice, the west coast would have supplied a man — just who I never quite decided."

King, I remarked, would probably not care for the Post Office Department.

"Then he should have something else.  King is no ordinary citizen.  He is a very able man and honest.  I like King and his wonderful method of organization.  I shall have to tell' Ted' Robinson to look into it."