Word: foreign-aid
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...President in his right to use U.S. troops in fending off Communist aggression in the Middle East-but it would deny the Administration's request to spend some $200 million of already authorized funds in the Middle East without congressional restriction. Russell lost no time in using the foreign-aid provision of the Eisenhower Doctrine to attack the whole U.S. foreign-aid program. "I refuse to ... buy a pig in a poke without knowing its size or weight ... As a matter of fact, we do not even know if there is a pig in the poke . . . We must start...
...notes scribbled on a piece of yellow scratch paper, "is the greatest single inflationary force in the country today. I assert, without any fear that the statement can be refuted in any way, that we cannot bring down federal spending for domestic purposes so long as we increase our foreign-aid program...
...theoretician may figure it out on a mathematical basis, but when we get down to the political realities here in the legislative trenches, where men must make a record on which to run for reelection, we cannot prevent an increase in domestic spending so long as we increase the foreign-aid program...
...authorization for the use of troops or freehanded spending of aid funds at any time. The President was willing to report to Congress on the use of his powers twice a year instead of once. Painfully aware that he had not sold his case for the need for foreign-aid flexibility in the Middle East, Dulles explained how present congressional restrictions on the spending of foreign aid would rob the President of the initiative that he sorely needs in the crisis. He emphasized that a vote for the Eisenhower plan would not commit any Congressman "for long-term aid...
...Since Congress has already voted foreign-aid funds for the Middle East, why does the President need authorization to use $400 million over the next two years without restraint...