For Emergency Only

Before he left New York last week for his conference with Ike Eisenhower in Georgia, Tom Dewey flatly took himself out of the running for a Cabinet job. Yet newsmen were still a little skeptical as they watched Ike and Dewey in close conference, on a stone bench overlooking the golf course, through most of one afternoon. Then a statement from Ike made it final: "Governor Dewey emphatically reaffirmed his purpose of continuing in his important post as governor of New York. This purpose, of course, precludes, at least for the present, any thought of requesting him to accept a post in the Federal Government."

But if Dewey had ruled himself out of the Cabinet, the phrase "for the present" seemed to mean that Ike was not ruling out the possibility of offering Dewey a Cabinet post sometime in the future. And Dewey had clearly established himself as a top adviser in the new Administration. Said Ike: "He has promised to be available whenever necessary for consultation and advice and for any future work of an emergency or temporary character. In view of his great abilities and unusual experience . . . and because he is one of the Republican Party's outstanding leaders, Governor Dewey's availability is more than gratifying to me."

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