THE CONGRESS: Bitter Billions

As soon as the excitement over Ike's campaign intentions had simmered down, Joe Martin took over from Bill Knowland and got the Glatfelter Hall conference back to brass tacks about the foreign-aid bill. The House, as Ike knew, had already sliced the Administration's last-ditch request by more than half a billion to authorize a foreign-aid program of $3.9 billion for this year. Now in the second go-around it was about to vote the hard cash in an appropriation bill and was flirting with a tough $3.6 billion, recommended by its Appropriations Committee....

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