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6/19/34
11 The President does not interfere with the press. I put in the Record the other day an article from the pen of Mr. Raymond Clapper, entitled 1 Why Reporters Like Roosevelt’, and in the course of that article it was disclosed that the President has won the esteem and the affection of press reporters in Washington.
"Neither the Congress nor the President has done any¬ thing to interfere with the freedom of the press. And that there is absolute freedom of expression here is evidenced by the fact that day after day the Senator from Minnesota has exercised that liberty to the extent that if he made anywhere else the statements which he makes here he would be liable to prosecution for libel or for slander. 11
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PRESIDENT WILL MAKE NO APPOINTMENTS UNTIL JUNE 26
It was said at the White House that President Roosevelt would not appoint the members of the new Communications Commis¬ sion, or make any other appointments until he returns to Washing¬ ton, Tuesday, June 26, prior to his departure for Hawaii.
In the meantime, conjecture is at a white heat as to who he may appoint. The favorites in the guessing match are Judge E.O, Sykes, the present Chairman of the Radio Commission; Capt. S. C. Hooper, Chief of Naval Communications; Col. Thad Brown, or Com¬ missioner Harold A. Lafount (maybe both) ; Homer Hoch, of the Kansas Public Service Commission, and Milo R. Maltbie, Chairman of the New York Public Service Commission. It seems to be the opinion that Representative Prall, of New York, will be appointed to the new Commission. One interpretation of the Constitutional provision is that he will not be eligible to serve until January 1st when his Congressional term expires. A prominent lawyer in Washington declared yesterday that he believed Prall would be ineligible to serve at any time, himself (Prall) having been a member of the Congress which created the Commission.
Former Congressman John Edward Nelson, Republican, of Maine, is understood to have been among the latest candidates for the Commission proposed to President Roosevelt.
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