Prediction

Chicago's ex-mayor, Ed Kelly, still one of the country's shrewdest political observers, dropped into the White House last week with a few Midwestern Democratic committeemen for an informal chat. On his way out, Ed Kelly made a little prediction about the man he had just seen: "Unless he gets hit by a freight train, he's going to be around for a long time."

Last week, the President:

P: Misfired his first veto at the Both Congress. The bill was a Senate resolution authorizing his old friend Burt Wheeler to continue private law practice while serving as counsel for the Senate special war investigating committee. The President vetoed it, because of technicalities, on the advice of Attorney General Tom Clark, discovered to his embarrassment that he had signed similar legislation before. To save the presidential face, the Senate agreed to redraft the bill, send it through again.

P: Authorized the Secretary of the Navy to transfer 271 naval vessels, with necessary drydock, to China.

P: Declined to play the Missouri Waltz after a dinner for his state's congressional delegation. Reason: he was rusty--had had no time for practice lately.

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