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...that may have been accidental.) The President's purpose in choosing this blue-chip bunch was very shrewd. He was not nearly so interested in gaining unofficially thought-out views of economic and military programs as he was in providing himself with a club with which to clip Otto Passman, chairman of the Foreign Aid Appropriations subcommittee, behind the ear. The Committee, which would surely recommend a few minor cuts in expenditure and give the rest of foreign aid its blessing, would at last lend the programs an appearance respectable enough to cow the Congress...
Actually, the Administration hoped to turn Clay's critical report to its own advantage. As usual, the anti-aid congressional bloc, headed by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, is out after the program with a meat ax. Now the Administration can point to the Clay report as proof that its own reduced requests are realistic and should not be cut further...
...certain that A.I.D. has never been so unpopular. When the Congress refused to swallow the President's request for long-term authority to borrow from the Treasury two years ago, it was just beginning to bend a sympathetic ear to Otto Passman's beefy hostility to the entire program. Last year Capitol Hill celebrated Mr. Passman's eighth year as chairman of the House subcommittee by cutting the Administration's request from $4.95 billion to $3.93 billion. Jealous of their prerogative of scrutinizing aid funds, both House and Senate remained deeply suspicious about the President's intention to transform...
Foreign aid is in trouble again. Mr. Passman made heavier cuts than usual in Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left arm in four places...