Distinction

At President Eisenhower's press conference Cowles Publications' Richard Wilson said: "Some people have characterized your legislative program as an extension of the New Deal . . . Would you care to comment?"

The President would indeed. The question obviously nettled him. Hands on hips, he glowered at the reporters. The best comment on that, he snapped, is to take a look at the budget. Look at the Truman budget and at his own budget, and find the direction this Administration is going. The Truman regime was going further & further into debt and at an increasing rate; and the present Government is trying to reduce the expenditures of the Government and go the other way.

Then, after staring at the ceiling for a moment, the President gave a compass reading for his Administration. He said: "When it comes down to dealing with the relationships between the human in this country and his Government, the people in this Administration believe in being what I think we would normally call liberal, and when we deal with the economic affairs of this country, we believe in being conservative."

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