Evening star., 1951-03-16
Truman Says He Hope,
To Be Remembered
For Peace Efforts
By Joseph A. Fox
Stor Stoff Correspondent

KEY WEST, Fla, Mar. 10
President Truman is convinced
that only the passage of years
make it possible properly to
evaluate any administration
he hopes his will be remembered
for efforts to build world peace.
If World War III is averted,
he believes that will fix his place
in history.
The Chief Executive expoundeG
his philosophy late yesterday at
slacks and sport shirt news
conference on the lawn of the
Little White House." in which
he also
/. Defended his staff against
charges growing out of the RFC
inquiry, with the fiat assertion
that he had only honorable
people around him, and would
not keep them otherwise.
says HOUSE is Clean.
2. Bolstered this line with an
attack on character assassination,
and said his house was always
clean.
3. Refused to discuss his plans
for 1852. telling questioners with
a chuckle that they were free to
speculate on whether he would
seek reelection, or. as has been
reported in some quarters, was
thinking of running for his old
Senate seat from Missouri.
4. Expressed regret that the
House had killed his defense-re-
organization plan, but said he
would do the best he could with
out it.
5. Said the administration would
do everything to hold prices and
wages in line.
S. Refused to speculate on
whether Gen. MacArthur's forces
would cross the 38th Parallel.
Establishes Advisory Board.
7. Issued an order establishing
the National Advisory Board on
mobilization policy, a 17-member
group headed by Defense Mobi-
lizer Charles E. Wilson, which will
have representation from public,
business. labor and agriculture,
and function akin to the presi-
dentiai-advisory group set up in
World War II under the late
o. Max Gardner.
The President spoke of his
hopes for the place historians will
give his administration after a
brisk colloquy turning on the Sem
ate's RFC inquiry into which the
names of Donald Dawson, an ad-
ministrative assistant. and Mrs. E.
Merle Young. a stenographer,
have been drawn.
A reporter recalled that soon
April 12-Mr. Truman will mark
his sixth year in Office, and want
ed to know what reflections he
might offer.
No Implication, He Says.
The President responded that
he hoped the second six years
would not be as hard as the first,
and then hastily declared that no
implications were to be drawn
from that, as the conference
which had been trying to pin him
down on 1952-howled.
Then the President was asked
what he expected his administra-
ton to be remembered for, and
he answered slowly permitting
direct quotation:
Il hope it will be remembered
Tor its sincere effort for world
peace, and if we accomplish that
if we get through this era without
q third world war, think that
probably is what it will be re-
membered for.
Il will make this comment,
though, that all a President of
Tie OIllGeQ SCdJeS can DO is to en-
deavor to make the Government
the executive branch-run in the
public interest. l have striven
very hard to accomplish that pur-
pose. The administration of no
president can be correctly evalu-
ated during his term, or with Is
or 80 years after that term.
Thomas Jefferson has just now
come into his own as a President.
The same is true of Jackson,
Lincoln, Grover Cleveland. And
the same thing will be true of
Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
1t takes an objective survey of
what has happened and what was
trying to be accomplished to de-