As planned by the Democrats who pushed it through Congress, the $251 million aid-to-depressed-areas bill was vetoed by the President last week and fell into place as a plank in the 1960 Democratic campaign platform.
Ike, in sending the bill back to Congress, recalled his veto of a bloated $389.5 million depressed-areas bill in 1958, saw "in 1960, another election year," an "even more objectionable" approach to a long-neglected problem. His chief objection to the openhanded, broadly defined Democratic bill: "It would make eligible for federal assistance areas that don't need it."
In contrast to the Administration's $53 million relief measure,...
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