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Silcox had a &quot;pipe-line&quot; to the White House 

 through Tugwell and he did what he could to offset 

 Harold Ickes strenuous efforts to get FDR to transfer 

 the Forest Service to Interior. I believe my recol 

 lection is correct that at one point Silcox threatened 

 to resign and fight the proposal if it was pushed. 

 When the President asked Silcox to become Under 

 secretary of the Interior we all suspected that it 

 was a not-too-clever effort to gain his support for 

 the transfer. At any rate Silcox chose not to 

 desert the Forest Service. 



Fry: What were the differences between Silcox and Greeley 

 that lead to Silcox s leaving the Service eventually? 



Granger: I don* t know. 



Earle H^ Clapp 



Clapp was Associate Chief and when Silcox died, 

 the Secretary of Agriculture told Clapp to carry on 

 as Acting Chief. This he did very ably for three 

 years and certainly should have been made chief. We 

 always suspected that he was denied the promotion 

 because FDR became aware that Clapp was doing every- 



