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...happens every year. As the time approaches for Congress to vote money for foreign aid, the President of the U.S. must try to find some way of dealing with Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman, chairman of the House subcommittee that passes on foreign aid appropriations. It makes little difference what the President decides to do. For in any event Passman is certain to try to slash foreign aid to the barest nubbin. And he often succeeds...
Thus, in 1957. when the foreign aid program was before Passman's subcommittee. Republican Dwight Eisenhower invited Passman to the White House. Ike meant to use all his great persuasiveness on Passman. But he never got a chance. No sooner had Passman entered the President's office than he launched into a long recitation, flung verbal graphs around the room, polka-dotted the President with decimal points, cascaded the room with statistics. When Passman finally left, the President turned to an aide. "Remind me," he groaned, "never to invite that fellow down here again...
Hard Look. Louisiana's Otto Passman, chairman of the House foreign aid appropriations subcommittee and a perennial foe of foreign aid, predictably called Kennedy's request "preposterous," and Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton warned: "A lot of us who have been friends of foreign aid are going to be looking at it mighty hard this year." Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd suggested that the U.S. should "let a few of these countries go to the Communists" so that the others will not blackmail the U.S. into giving aid by threatening that they might also...
...situation has some U.S. Congress men on the warpath. Louisiana Representative Otto Passman, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid. last month denounced a White House request for $3 billion to finance the Alliance for the next four years as "asinine." U.S. Alliance Director Teodoro Moscoso. who bossed Puerto Rico's successful self-help program, admits: "You can hardly expect U.S. taxpayers, already heavily burdened, to help underwrite development programs in countries where a few privileged people are virtually free from taxation." In recent months, U.S. lawmakers have journeyed to Latin America to see for themselves. Arkansas...
...House members, led by Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, an implacable enemy of foreign aid, fought a bitter week's delaying action, finally forcing a settlement of $3.87 billion...