J: 12 Thi Statesman, Solan Oregon, Monday. Tan. IS. 1954 lite Approaches End of First j Year As President Far More Seasone Politically, Firmer in Leadership! m By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL! .( and EO CREAGH ! WASHINGTON Uh DwightfD. Eisenhower ends his first years in the I White Bouse next Wednesday fair more seasoned politically, pu per4footed as a civilian leader than the general-turned-politicjan who took office Jan. 20, .1953. f In spite of constant problems and! harassing troubles, the con tagious Eisenhower grin is stilt in evidence. But that square Jaw seems 'to jut out more than it once did. After 12 months in office Eisen hower still can say, as in his can didate days, "I don't know"! or "I'm no expert on that" But j he also can say "I want" and "1 ex pect" f Revealing Comment A revealiAff comment was i of fered in private conversation fthe other day by an official of the Budget Bureau, the agency which translates into working dollars and cents the plans and wishes of oth ers in the government f "In preparing the new budget, this official said, "we often bear the expression 'Eisenhower wants this or 'Eisenhower wants that You'd never have heard that year ago. It never occurred! ta mest people that The general wouia nave opinions on sucn subjects." A break-in, shakedown yeaf of general steadiness on foreign r pot icT with a eood deal more! ex perimenting, some mind-changing and Ion? oeriods of fact-eathering in' home front affairs jiave helped produce the Eisenhower of today. Toughness Advantage If the President is politically tougher, it's 'to his advantage.! For a! rough, make-or-break yeat of action and decision lies ahead. with a full Eisenhower program at last outlined and aroppea, into a; closely divided Congress already snarling with controversy. The Dolitical stakes are enor mous the success or failure of the first Republican administration irt turn riwarfps The wav the Pres ent sms it. the GOP won' t de serve to keep control of Congress unless it puts nis program over, i To Eisenhower, it is a "dynam ic, progressive, forward-looking" blueprint for a "stronger Ataen ca and the welfare of ail Amen cans. I i Yet on manv of its detailsi-tax es and farm policy among others --the President already is on the -defensive against many Demo crats and some of his own party, j Behind the program, however, are the President's own pefsonal popularity and omens of a 'grow ing determination on his part to take a stronger grip on the! reins 4-to let everybody know jit is Dwight D. Eisenhower wh runs this administration. ; Desires to Get Along 1 1 The desire to get along with con gressmen and .the people I about him still is there, along with the emphasis on teamwork. Eisenhow er's lieutenants on Capitol Hill plainly can differ with him on matters of policy at time? and Still stay on the team. f ! The late Sen. Robert A. Teft did it. Sen. Knowland of California. who succeeded Taft as GOP Sen ate leader, has done it I 1 Even so, many lawmakers agree there is something of a "new Ei senhower" in the White House who mav' be less willing to nlacate and compromise than he was a year 'ago- " f ! It ' began . to become apparent I when the President rammed through Congress last yeaf, over J opposition of the House ways and Means Committee, a six months ' extension of the excess profits tax j on corporations. i There seemed to be more evi dence: The manner in which Ei- I senhower UDheld Harry Truman's I patriotism in the face of m blast against the former president by Attv. Gen. Brownell: backed Sec retary of State Dulles views over those of Sen. McCarthy Ot-Wis): and took command of the! prepar ation of his legislative program and conferences on it with con gressional leaders. I How much of this attitude car ries over into election-winning pol itics is someining use agm. Raw Recruit - The commanding general of the victory in EuroDe was only a raw recruit in politics. And jhe still seems a bit ill at ease in his role as head of the Republican Party, with little taste for dabbling in strategy and rough and tumble electioneering. - I His speeches at GOP tallies in the year gone by have stressed objectives and principles rather than whinninff un his followers to wild heights of whooping enthus iasm, i And his role in this year's heavy battling for control of Congress still is something of a f mystery. Fispnhnwer's enressed ideas on -that took some rapid shifts and turns in the space of an October fortnight. . I First he told a news conference ti tirin't intend to use the oresi- dencv to try to swine oartison elec tions, particularly at the state and local levels., Rather, nei said, ne honed to develon an enlightened. progressive program as an um brella under which Republican' can didates could gather and campaign to victory. ; So it looked at that point as u the President intended to stay Pret ty much aloof from 1954 politics. National Chairman That broucht the Republican na tional chairman, Leonard W. Hall, running to the White House the next day. He came out saying he expected Eisenhower to take part in the campaign at least 10 me extent of talking about adminis tration accomplishments. A few days later, the cruel ex ecutive told reporters of course he wanted the Republicans te keep control of Coneress. He indicated he might make some speeches plugging the GOP record, or oc casionally pat a candidate on tne back or have his picture taken with him. Only the next day the White House let it be known Eisenhower favored the election of all Repub lican candidates everywhere, in cluding Paul Troast, the contro versial GOP candidate for gover nor of New Jersey. Troast later was beaten by a Democrat despite the presidential -endorsement There has been some backing and filling in the handling of do mestic affairs, too, as Eisenhow er and his cabinet team re cruited largely from the business world he ereatlv admires found theories of government tested in the hot fires of reality. There was much Republican talk if not actual promises by Eisen hower himself in 1952 and early 1953 about a balanced budget. But months ago the President gave up hone of accomplishing this in the next fiscal year, which starts July 'Hard Money: The administration had to modi fy, too. the "hard money" policy that had shoved up interest rates on business, farm and home loans. Similiarlv. an administration that had called for fewer restrictions on farmers ran into problems of crop surpluses. The result was re strictions in the form of acreage limitations and production auotas. But the original aim of an un-! regimented agriculture is still I there. The new farm program calls i for keeping off the markets tne huge crop surpluses in government hands and using them for emer gency stockpiles, school lunch pro grams and the like. It calls also for sliding price supports in place of the present rigid props. Congress is squaring off for battle on that In the touchy field of labor-man agement relations, Eisenhower's general - eet i - eovernment-out-ot- the-wav nhilosonhv didn't stop him - ' . . . from recommending among nis recent Taft-Hartley change propos alsa system of government held strike elections. This looks like putting the gov ernment nearer the middle of union-management strife than it has been since World War II days. Balanced Budget On taxes, I Eisenhower repeated ly took the stand that a balanced budget must be in sight "a proved capacity" before there could be any reductions. "We claim." he said in his early days in office, "that unless we balance the budget, there will nev er be any lowering of taxes." Now he is saying Republican economizing made it possible to let the income tax come down and the excess profits tax on cor porations end on schedule Jan. 1. balance or no balance. The whole home front program. in fact seems to show some' shift in emphasis. With some exceptions, the pro gram was heavy on retrenchment at first Snenriinff came down. wage. nrir and rent controls were droD- per, the government took steps to get out of competition witn pri vate business, tens or tnousanos of people were dropped from the federal payroll. Atomic Weapons Stressed : This was accompanied by slash es m the defense program, Dy more stress on atomic aee weap ons and air power and less on manpower, and the adminis tration claims by a net increase in fighting power. But the program Eisenhower outlined in his State of the Union message to Congress Jan. 7 env hrares anti-deoression measures. public works, highway expansion, housing and neaitn plans, neip tor states in building schools and hos pitals, unemployment insurance for million more workers. Still, the President is proposing another 5 billion dollar reduction in eovernment spending. Democrats took a look at the revised program and chortled that Eisenhower has taken over ootn the Roosevelt New Deal and the Tniman "Fair DeaL" It is in the field of foreign policy that Eisenhower and his adminis tration have followed a relatively straight tine, insisting on free world unity and on American lead ership in getting it .Gradually there has been hanfff from the Truman policy of containment of fencing in Com munism, to one of attempting to crab the Initiative in the cold war. Elsenhower sparked the hopes of the world with challenges to Russia last AorUi to loin in dis armament and tof show by deeds rather than words5 that the Krem lin wants peace. J j Rritrht Snark "II He struck an even brighter spark in December with his plan for pool ing atomic materials for peaceful purposes as -a start toward eas ing tensions and avoiding tne nor mr nf another war. The President lean look back. too, on a year that brought about an armistice, thoueh a shaky one. in Korea, stepped up aid to the French fighting Reds in mdocni na, food for East Germans rebell ing a?ainsi Soviet tyranny, and a law to give more European refu gees an American haven. By reorganization plans, and oy nersonal initiative. Eisenhower has started changing? the lace ot gov He has in effect enlarged the cabinet by making Budget Direc tor Josenh M. Dodge. United Na- tinn Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and Civil service um mission Chairman Philip Young rptnilar attendants at its meeting. More important, perhaps, ne nas enlarged the National Security Council and given it new, com manding status in the making of security policies. F.ninvs Work ! On the personal level, does Ei senhower like his job after 12 months in it? ' Ask him and he's likely to say. with a somewhat embarrassed laugh, that his ! isn't the sort of job a man takes because he en joys the work. . One thine he doesn t like any more than Harry Truman or Franklin D. Roosevelt did is the confined, goldfishbowl - luce existence of a White House ten ant. I He gets away from the White House indeed, away from Wash ington as often as he can. And he makes no apologies to those who think he vacations too much in Augusta. Ga: or elsewhere. He says plainly that he needs the change of scene and pace. An active man, Eisenhower sore ly misses the golf he s been forced to curtail. His doctors, wnue pro nouncing him in fine snape for a man of 63, would like him to play more often than he does. Those close to the President say nothing cpems to relax! him so thoroughly as a round such as he played in chilly, overcast weather - tne January afternoon of his State of the Union f address. It's just what he needs to "get out the kinks." as one of his secretaries put it ! i . in (Always Open Friday Eves. HOES : . - Ford Defends Intertational Cooperation 5 5 PHILADELPHIA M - Henry Ford II Saturday night assailed "powerful and grimly negative" Americans who would junk the policy of international coopera tion. ! Ha called, instead, for the Uni ted States to i "step forth with a hard-hitting program to speed the peaceful and orderly development of the underdeveloped areas ot tne arth" V Ford's remarks were contained in a speech ! accepting the Poor Richard Club's 1954 gold medal award. The Eisenhower administration, he declared, is trying to provide America with the "positive foreisn nolicv" it wants. 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