Mr, Garner Mentioned For Presidency Washington, Dec. 17. Meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the first time since the November elections, Mr. John M. Garner, the Vice-President, today conferred with the Chief Executive for more than two hours regarding the legislative programme for the forthcoming session of Congress.
Mr. Garner has recently returned from his ranch in Texas. Political circles were interested in today's meeting because there is already a considerable movement afoot for the nomination of Mr. Garner as the next Democratic candidate for the prestdency.
Following the conference, Mr Garner maintained his customary policy of complete silence. The White House spokesman, however, said that President Roosevelt planned. among other things, to discuss the foreign situation in the light of reports from the ambassadors to Rome. Berlin and Paris who were at present in Washington, having been called from their posts for consultations.
It was reliably understood that President Roosevelt had collaborated with Mr. Cordell Hull and Mr.
Sumner Welles of the State Department, as well as other advisers, in preparing a preliminary draft of the foreign affairs section of his forthcoming annual message to Congress. It was presumed that today the President had sought Mr. Garner's reaction to this portion of his message.
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