In the U.S. daily press, throughout the great budget debate of the past three months, only one influential voice has been raised in aggressive, consistent and all-out support for the Eisenhower budget. That voice comes not from the ranks of "Modern Republicanism" but from Washington Columnist David Lawrence, a hardheaded conservative who is the respected oracle of the far right and the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S.
While some Ike-minded publishers and columnists sat back in unsupporting silence, and others have heaped invective on Government spending or, like Publisher John S. Knight (TIME, May 20), even turned the...