Administrators

Since the inauguration of President Coolidge, this has been noted : Cabinet members emerge from the council chamber singly, not as a group. Significance attached to this phenomenon as follows :

1) The President spends only a few minutes in Cabinet meetings, retires to his study.

2) There he consults with individual members of the Cabinet in order of rank.*

3) The President is inclined to relieve the Cabinet of group responsibility and to consider each Secretary as an administrator responsible to the President for his own department only.

* Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor.