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Monday, October 3, 1955
MEDFORD (CREGOIQ) MAIL TRIBUXX FZVE
President's Incapacity Points To Little Understood Cabinet
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington U.R) Presi
d e n t Eisenhower's incapacity
has spotlighted the presidential
cabinet which
is an odd and
little under
stood organ of
government, a
(anere politic?!
vermiform appendix.
The cabinet
has no consti
tutional status,
e x e r c lses no
Lrk C. Wilson authority and,
Snore often than not, is ill-in-
urn
formed on major decisions and
policies.
Moieover, the cabinet defies
the natural law that the whole
can be no greater than the sum
of its parts. The individual cabi
net members are great figures
in their fields -of activity, each
with tremendous authority over
some area of,, the national de
fense or national economy.
Seated collectively around the
cabinet table these great figures
are merely guests of the Presi-dent-without
legal authority.
The Constitution brushes off
the cabinet in a few words stat
ing that the President may call
on the principal officer of any
department if he desires to do so
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' for an opinion In writing. The
Constitution says the opinion
shall relate to the duties of the
respective officers. That's all the
Constitution has to say about the
cabinet.
Systsm Just Grew
The so-called cabinet system
by which a President meets reg
ularly with the departmental
principal officers and some oth
ers, as he .may invite, just grew.
Under many Presidents, includ
ing some of the standouts, the
cabinet didn't amount to much.
Jackson. Lincoln, Woodrow
Wilson, FDR, for example, could
take their cabinets or leave them
alone. Former President Truman
often leaned heavily on his cabi-
i net. So ' does President Eisen
hower. But as Presidents grow
stronger their cabinets become
weaker.
The cabinet cannot compare
4 with the National Security coun
cil as an institution of govern
ment. The (Council was created
by law. It has wide and specific
authority to advise the Presi
dent on the integration of do
mestic, foreign ,-,and military
policies relating d to security.
That covers just about every
thing. Nixon an Invited Guest
Vice-President R i c h a r,d M. L
Nixoa- sits at the cabinet" table
as an invited guest of the Presi
dent. But Nixon sits at the coun-' come of it.
cil table and just new pre
side because that is the law.
The libraries sag with mem
oirs of cabinet officers telling
of tiresome, trivial sessions and
of many Presidents3 who sought
advice outside the cabinet cir
cle, often failing tS advise mem
bers. '
It is history that Woodrow
Wilson did not read his 1917
war message to the cabinet be
fore its delivery to cCongress.
Lincoln was guilty of numerous
such by-passes.
There has been much talkof
legislating bonecand sinewQinto
the cabinet, but nothing . has
Marcus Kidnaping .
Indictment Sought
San Francisco (U.R) Dist.
Atty. Thomas C. Lynch goes be
fore the San Francisco Grand
Jury tonight to ask for a kidnap
ing indictment against Mrs. Betty
Jean Benedicto.
Mrs. Benedicto will probably
not accompany him. She is in
the epsychopathic ward at San
Francisco hospital, recovering
from an apparent suicide at
tempt. Last week she swallowed four
Liquor Consumption In Slight Decline
Portland (U.R) Oregon
Liquor Control Commission sta
tistics released last week end for
the fiscal year ended June 30
showed a slight decline in the
But despite slight drops in tax
small bedspring links. Her con
dition was reported as "pretty
good." However, hospital attend
ants said she may be held in the
hospital for several more days.
" Mrs. Benedicto, wife of a Fili
pino rooming house operator in
Stockton, confessed last week to
stealing ' baby Robert Marcus
from his crib in San Francisco's
Mount Zion hospital Sept. 19.
She was arrested last Wednesday.
state's liquor consumption.
and license collection and bottle
sales, net revenue was up a bit
at $13,393,248.
Purchasers permits declined
1700 from last year to 4,897.
Some $3,525,000 from liquor
sales and tax collections during
the three months ended Sept. 30,
was being distributed to the state G
general fund and census board
and also to cities and counties.
Only increase in consumption,
was in table wines, some 1,041,
000 gallons being taxed.
New York (U.R) Julius Ochs
Adler, first vice-president and
general manager of the New
York Times, iied today at the
age of 62.
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