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More money is by no means all the program needs, but this does not mean that its budget for this year is satisfactory. The Budget Bureau has already out Undersecretary Dillon's figure of $5.5 billion to $4.7 billion, and the Administration will be extremely lucky if the combined axes of the House and Senate leave as much as $4.0 billion Unless the President-elect is willing to fight for between $4.5 and $5.0 billion at the expense of other legislation, his subordinates are unlikely to escape their by now traditional frustrations...
...comely Kennedy secretary drove him from the hotel, prattled through a guided tour of Joe Kennedy's cream-colored villa before depositing him in the library. There was a suitable moment's wait, then in strode Jack, followed shortly by Lyndon, Kerr and incoming Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. (Notably absent: future Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...Johnson will be No. 2 man instead of Nixon. Rusk will speak for U.S. in foreign affairs instead of Herter; Dillon will be in charge of finances instead of Anderson. The whole command will change...
Fortnight ago, accepting Kennedy's offer, Dillon announced that he had first cleared things with both Ike and Dick Nixon and neither objected "if we were to work toward a sound fiscal policy, which is the case." But Doug Dillon had not told the whole story. He got no encouragement at all from Nixon, and Ike twice urged Dillon not to accept without a commitment in writing from Kennedy that he would have a free hand in setting Treasury policy. Dillon answered that he had such an agreement, although not in writing, but seemed to miss the presidential point...
...week's end, Ike had reason to be madder than ever. During a Palm Beach press conference, Jack Kennedy noted that no commitment at all had been offered to Dillon. "A President," said Kennedy, "can't enter into treaties with Cabinet members...