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...vacation. By demonstrating that the President was willing to meet Congress at least part way in its budget-cutting efforts, the letter was a shrewd appeal to the public opinion that Congress both generates and venerates. And no one knew better than Ike that the members of the 85th Congress were using the Easter holidays to head for home to feel the popular pulse...
Last week the budget storm was sweeping over everything in sight. The Administration seemed more than willing to put off decisions until after Easter, and the 85th Congress had enacted virtually no major legislation-but the House of Representatives had already worked its budget-whacking way well past the $1 billion mark (about half of which, admittedly, would have to be restored with supplemental appropriations before the end of the fiscal year). From extermination of the South's fire-ant plague to slum clearance, all legislative eggs were candled by one light: What will it cost...
Last week, in an attempt to keep up with the mail orders engendered by such come-ons, J. & P. was in the midst of its 85th shipping season, with 1,200 employees filling orders from customers in 48 states for some 9,000,000 rosebushes...
...Civil defense? Business aids? Rural electrification and telephones? Increased pay for all federal workers? School lunches? Veterans' pensions? Veterans' hospitals and other benefits? The FBI? Our courts? Immigration? Atomic energy? Farm-surplus programs? Those are the questions; it'll be interesting to see what answers this 85th Congress will give us after all their talk about economy...
...victory by no means put out Dick Russell's warning light for the foreign-aid program, which will be up for appropriations in the spring. Unless the Administration can effectively present a carefully engineered foreign-aid program, it may yet face the really big fight of the 85th Congress...