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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That in humility we see that greatness...
...Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey decided to go back to the steel business, he persuaded Anderson to return to Washington to succeed him. In mid-July 1957, outgoing Secretary Humphrey took incoming Secretary Anderson to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see the first dollar bills coming off the presses with Anderson's signature on them. They were also the first U.S. greenbacks to bear the motto "In God We Trust," long familiar on U.S. coins. Grinned Anderson: "This is pretty rugged. I no sooner take office than there...
...nearly everybody but Robert Anderson, a balanced 1960 budget seemed a hopeless undertaking. Over the prosperous Eisenhower years, the Administration had achieved a budget surplus only twice, in fiscal 1956 and 1957 (see chart), despite all the balanced-budget promises of the 1952 campaign. With the 1959 budget a gaudy $12.5 billion in the red, and the economy still convalescing from the recession, sober heads in the Administration argued for aiming toward a practical goal, e.g., holding the 1960 deficit down to a few billion...
...Protests rang out that Anderson was dragging the U.S. backward with a protectionist "Buy American" program (TIME, Nov. 9). But Anderson's essential purpose was to force Western Europe and Japan into providing loans to finance their own exports to underdeveloped countries. He would be happy to see Britain and West Germany set up their own development loan funds with "Buy British" or "Buy West German" strings attached...
More was involved than a mere jockeying over dates. The delay also reflected a dispute over what kind of summit there should be, and continuing disagreement over Western policy, as De Gaulle made clear in a remarkable press conference (see below...