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ie) Sy HYDE PARK Le . “Re ACOSEVELT INDICATED HE WOULD ACCUIESCE IN HUGHES ARE UEET. ULCER DATE OF JUtle ey YUGHES URCTE Mae ROOSEVELT ASHE! 1G APPROVAL oa wre GUTp EL “ONT FOR Fool J DPLSATIC! CF MEALTH ph: an) AGE. " (Be OC SEVUILT REPLILD TUAT TULUGH MIS PEVE.Y INCLINATION IL TC 255 You TC RE ate on MIS "DEZP CONCERN TOR YOUR HEALTY AND STRENSTY MUST BE - CARTAN ou mT " G/2--JETSTP.. + | : * z ee ADD HUGHES rh HUGHES’ WAS AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FROM 1910 TO 1916. 1 HE RESIGNED THEN TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENCY ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET BUT, LOST OUT TO THE LATE WOODROW WILSON. THE CHIEF JUSTICE HAS BEEN WANTING TO RETIRE FOR A LONG TIME, DUE TO ADVANCED AGE AND POOR HEALTH, BUT DEFERRED THE STEP UNTIL TODAY WHEN THE COURT COMPLETED ITS 1940-41 TERM. ' HIS HEALTH HAS BEEN NONE TOO GOOD FOR MO E THAN A YEAR. LAST sent ac uc UNDE RENT a SERIOUS ABDOMINA! OPER ATION anh TUERE was ca Srnmsite NE UNVENneoit uP VPI Livr be wit rita Sad DOUBT THAT HE WOULD RETURN TO TRE BENCHe IMMEDIATE SPECULATION ON HIS SUCCESSOR CENTERED AROUND ATTORNEY - GENERAL ROBERT He JACKSON. THERE HAVE BEEN RECURRING REPORTS FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS THAT MRe ROOSEVELT WOULD NAME JACKSON AS CHIEF JUSTICE \ WHEN AND IF HUGHES RETIRED» ide 6/2--JE808P | \