THE PRESIDENCY: Spare That Applecart

President Harry Truman, a specialist in the short, snappy, off-the-cuff answer to reporters' questions, was as brief as ever when the U.P.'s veteran Correspondent Merriman (Thank you, Mr. President) Smith first opened fire at the presidential press conference last week. Did he plan to take any steps to restore the money which the Senate (see THE CONGRESS) was busily whacking out of the $8.5 billion he wanted for the job of beefing up Europe? Of course he was going to keep working on it, the President said. He thought, however, that things looked hopeless.

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