Law Professor Wants Republicans To Enlarge Vice President's Role

A reform of the office of Vice President was urged by Robert Braucher, professor of Law, in a letter to the New York Times yesterday.

Braucher said that the Republicans have a good opportunity to remedy the weakness in the position of the Vice President by choosing the man for the post whom "they would nominate for President if President Eisenhower did not run."

Although his first choice for the reformed office would be former New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, Braucher said he might change his choice if Party expediency required another candidate. "But it would be a cinch for the Republicans to win with an Eisenhower-Dewey ticket," he predicted.

The G.O.P. should also try to increase the Vice President's responsibilities by legislation, or if necessary by a constitutional amendment, to make him a "real deputy" of the President and to give him "operating responsibility" in the domains of patronage and public relations, Braucher suggested.

The plan would "mitigate the man killing pressures on the President," Braucher stated.