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Democrats will doubtless try to make an issue out of the Administration's reluctance-stronger in Ike's second term than in his first-to spend federal money for state and local projects such as public housing, urban renewal, programs to aid depressed areas. Sure to pass during the current session of Congress, as exhibits for Democrats to point to from the hustings, are housing and depressed area bills much bigger than the Administration wants. If Ike vetoes them. Democrats can point to the vetoes. The need for state and local public works is undeniable-the big-city...
...President," asked U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith, "do you feel any sense of urgency in catching up with the Russians?" Ike was obviously irritated. "I'm always a bit amazed about this business of catching up," he snapped. "What you want is enough, a thing that is adequate. A deterrent has no added power, once it has become completely adequate, for compelling the respect of any potential opponent." The fiscal 1960 budget, said he, appropriates $6,690,000,000 for missiles, "and this, it seems to me, is getting close to the point where money itself will not bring...
Attack & Retreat. Questioned specifically on General Power's testimony to the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, Ike had uncommonly harsh words for generals who dispute him. "There are too many of these generals who have all sorts of ideas," said he testily. "I have been long enough in the military service that I cannot be particularly disturbed because everybody with a parochial*viewpoint all over the place comes along and says the bosses know nothing about...
...staffers) in Washington, he brings to his job a sober, Calvinistic sense of responsibility. He has never had a private audience with President Eisenhower (or with any other U.S. President), but that does not mean that Presidents are unaware of him. "Who does Scotty Reston think he is," Ike once complained, "telling me how to run the country...
...Committee, four top economists forecast that business activity in 1960 will certainly meet-and perhaps exceed-the rosy predictions made in the President's Economic Report. George Cline Smith, chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp., and Peter Henle, assistant research director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., agreed that Ike's forecasts of a national output of $510 billion in 1960 is right on the line. Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board, and Roy L. Reierson, chief economist of Bankers Trust Co., took an even more sanguine view: they believe that the gross national...