Presidential Influence on Independent Agencies

likely to be unbiased in their judgments. Some Presidents have, to be sure, written quite frankly of their official problems after they left office. Cleveland, especially, did this,' but unfortunately, the reminiscences of Presidents who served as long ago as Cleveland are not of great usefulness today. The presidency is in the process of radical change as a result of the much greater administrative burdens assumed by government as a whole. We cannot profitably go back beyond the time of Woodrow Wilson, and our most worth-while conclusions must be based on history as recent as that of the New Deal

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