As a bewildering mixture of disarming candor and foot-in-mouth politics, it was one of the most extraordinary press conferences since Harry Truman entered the White House. The President began by remarking that he had no special announcements to make; he threw himself open for questions. Up popped the Buffalo Evening News's white-haired Jim Wright. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been trying to reason out this food conservation program at breakfast this morning without an egg. Are you going to have the chickens go without grain on the seventh day of the...
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