"Remind me," Dwight Eisenhower once ordered an aide, "never to invite that fellow down here again!"
"What," groaned John F. Kennedy, "am I going to do about him?"
The target of both Presidents' outbursts was Otto Passman, the Tabasco-tempered Democrat from Monroe, La., who for the past ten years has devoted most of his abrasive energies to the task of slashing foreign aid bills. As chairman of House Appropriations' foreign operations subcommittee, Passman, a graduate of Bogalusa Commercial Business College, has long been convinced that the best way to lose foreign friends is to "start supporting them with gifts and...
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