WRIGHT- CONTROL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS. 455 



Finally, the President on whom falls final responsibility for leading 

 the separated and often antagonistic agencies of government to the 

 goal of a successful foreign policy should not be a dark horse. Why 

 not develop traditions of advancement, as from a governorship to the 

 Senate, then to the Vice-Presidency, or to the Cabinet, and finally 

 to the Presidency. It was done in the first forty years of our 

 national history.*^ It would lead bigger men to the Senate and 

 Cabinet. It would insure capacity and popular confidence in the 

 President. 



Mr. Blaine an entirely new system has come into use, Senators Sherman (and 

 Knox) being the only Secretaries of State who had also been members of 

 the Senate. Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that there should 

 have been more friction between the President and the Senate on foreign 

 matters than existed during the earlier years of our nation's life." (Reinsch, 

 Am. Legislatures, p. 95, quoted in Will'oughby, op. cit., p. 460.) 



*3 For table showing the experience of American Presidents, see Am. 

 Pol. Set. Rev., IS : 25. Wilson (Congressional Government, pp. 251-256) 

 refers to the tendency of the governorship rather than membership in the 

 Senate or House to be in the line of promotion to the presidency. 



