Evening star., 1952-10-04
President Declares
Eisenhower Yielded
To Selfish Men,
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Gen. Eisenhowers past utterances
on this problem.
Mr.. Truman quoted Gen. Eisen-
hover as saying:
If all that Americans want is
security. they can go to prison.
They'll have enough to eat, bed,
and roof over their heads"
I'm these times. we hear so
much Of security, security for
everything We do. should think
that the best example of it would
be a man serving a lifetime in a
Federal prison
These remarks" the President
said, were made in speeches be-
fore he became the Republican
candidate for President. Now he
is travelling about the country
saying he believes in social secur-
ity. His political advisers have
told him that's what the people
like and that's what he'd better
say. But what really counts, in
the great Office he is seeking. is
how he really feels"
On housing, the President con-
tinued, the Republicans for 20
years have had a record of OBJ
struction."
Theirs is record dictated by
the real estate lobby, a record of
opposing aid to the middle income
families and the low income fam
lies" he said.
Talks on Slum Clearance.
Asserting the Republican Party
Is against slum clearance, the
President said the G. o. P.'sI
course is dictated by the fact that
there is money to be made in
human suffering"
Turning to his medical care
program, the President said the
program had been the object of
an attack that was fantastic in
its scope and its vilification."
y The Republican Party spear
headed that attack. the President
charged, with funds supplied by
the medical lobby" which he
described as "a reactionary fac
tion within the tightly held lead
ership of the American Medical
Association"
The President brought Senator
Nixon in on that one. too, reading
a clipping from the Nashville Ten
nessean Of September 26 repro
ducing the photostat of a letter
Mr.. Truman said apparently went
to a great number Of doctors.
This invited doctors to partici-
pate in a Nixon parade last Sat-
urday, "and in order to make the
best impression on the general
public" it said. I'VE are asking
that you use small car if at all /;
possible"
The President emphasized that
small car" angle.
"The lobby has embraced the
Republican candidate and he has
returned the favor" Mr.. Truman
said, referring to the Eisenhower
attack on "socialized medicine
recently.
Makes Half Dozen Talks. |,
President Truman made half a
dozen talks in California yesterday |,
es he came south from Washing B
ton and Oregon, still slamming {.
away at the Republican Party and /,
the candidacy of Gen. Eisenhower. Il
The presidential train arrived 5
at Oakland at 9:15 o'clock last
night and Mr.. Truman came into
San Francisco and took up quar-
ters in the Fairmont Hotel. He
has some political conferences set
up this afternoon.
The President heralded his ar ,
rival in California with another 8
blast at Gen. Eisenhower and tie !
charge that "if the Republicans
in grabbing off the White ,
House and the Congress next No /
they will cripple the
water development program fos- i,
tered by the Democrats in the last ,
20 wears,
The President spoke at Shasta
College, in Redding. after an in ,
spection trip to nearby Shasta $
Dam
The President went about Is
miles by auto to see the dam, I,
which was the third he has visited
in this section of the country. ,
Mr.. Truman also had a nod
for Gov. Warren and Senator
Morse, Oregon Republican.
Blasts Old Guard.
Saying that he feels sorry for
that little band of liberal Repub-
lcans who dreamed that the gen.
eral would become their cham
pion," Mr.. Truman mentioned the
Governor and Senator and said
that men of their stripe must
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