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also trust them to choose their own leaders as long as they desired them".
In this the President and I <del/> in no way agree. I believe the strongly
entrenched position of a President makes more than two terms an exceedingly dan-
gerous proposition.
Irving Hoover said he had not had an increase in salary for six years
and that nearly everyone else had received one. He asked me to speak to Tumulty
under whom his office comes, but I decided to go directly to the President who
was glad to arrange it.
Just before I left Washington, Sir Cecil sent the President a confidential
<sic>despatch</sic> which had come from Sir Edward Grey. He handed it to me at luncheon.
Later, Sir Cecil rang me up and asked if I had read it and what I thought of it.
I replied I had only looked at it hastily, but it seemed alright.
I sent for Billy Phillips to come to the White House, and we had a short con-
ference. First Secretary Osborn seems unhappy, but Phillips had not heard any
further talk of his resignation. Phillips suggests John Garrett, for Minister
to Argentine, as a man who would strengthen the State Department in the event of
a vacancy.
September 30, 1914.
The President and I had a final confidential talk after breakfast. It
was arranged either for him to come to New York to see me or I am to return here
to see him.
After we finished talking, Dr. Grayson and I went to the Treasury to see
McAdoo, and at eleven o'clock Secretary Lane came to take me driving. We had a
delightful time, he outlining in a succinct way his view of socialism. At one
period he was inclined in that direction, but it occurred to him that the mind was
like the body, and if you did not exercise certain portions of it, they would
slough off and become lost. If socialism should prevail, the initiative in man
would be almost wholly lacking and other qualities in which we now excelled,
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