President Eisenhower tore straight into the gathering battle over his newly offered balanced budget for 1960. Those who complained about the $77 billion budget, said Ike with rare punch at his press conference, are affected by "what might be called budgetary schizophrenia . . . They are on all sides of it."
"They" were the Democrats, heard loud and clear the moment the budget was dropped on Capitol Hill. From Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson came the bitter charge that Ike's was "a political issue for 1960 . . . a propaganda budget'' that cannot be balanced out of...
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