Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-01

90 We Keep the communists out.
RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREE
MENTS-The trade agreements
act should be extended for at
least five years. when It comes UP
in the next session Of Congress.
BUDGET AND TAXES - Any
reduction IN the present $40 bill
lion budget would have to be
made in expenditures for national
security and II do not anticipate
In this next session that the Con-
gresS is going to vote a IS or So
billion dollar cut tthe amount re-
garded as necessary before there
could be a tax eptl II 81 billion
has to come out Of national secu-
rity."
LITTLE ROCK AND CIVIL
RIGHTS - President Eisenhower.
In Mr.. Nixon's opinion. had no
other choice but to send troops
to Little Rock to enforce the
school indignation orders Of Fed
eral court.
The President. Mr.. Nixon be-
lieves, acted with full constitu-
tional authority and at the APP
propriate moment TO prevent vio-
lence and possible bloodshed on
the basis of reports he had from
the FBI and Little Rock citizens.
Mr.. Nixon strongly disagrees
with the view that the Presidents
action was a blow at the princi-
pie Of States rights. In sending
troops to Little Rock. according TO
Mr.. Nixon. the President in the
long run was acting in the only
possible way to maintain the prin-
ciple of States rights In the federal
system and to avoid the chaos
and disrespect for law and order
generally that would result where
people with impunity blocked the
carrying out Of q Federal court
order.
AS for solving the problem the
Vice President believes that Gus
toms and attitudes cannot be
changed in a year or two. or five
years for that matter. But he be-
lieves the change must come out
Of moral and economic considera-
tons and the impact such Incl.
dents as Little Rock have inter-
nationally. and that the solution
must be worked out eventually by
moderate Southern leaders.
Mr.. Nixon was regarded as one
of the supporters Of strong civil
rights bill in the last session. The
bill that was passed was confined
largely to voting rights and looking
back on that Mr.. Nixon Is now Of
the opinion this was a moderate
solution to a difficult problem and
perhaps the correct approach in
sofar as what could be assimilated
by the courts and people at this
time.
LABOR LEGISLATION - Con-
gress viii consider and viii likely
pass legislation TO insure demo-
cratic processes in union elections.
for union finances and
pension and welfare funds and
possible bans ON organizational
picketing and secondary ooycotts.
However. u Is Mr.. Nixon's opin-
Ion that putting labor under the
antitrust laws. as proposed in
some quarters. would not correct
abuses disclosed by the Senate
committee investigating improper
labor -manaeement activities. and
such legislation win not be a part
Of the administrations labor pro-
gram. Nor will the administration
recommend. according to Mr..
Nixon. q national right-to-work
Law.
FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION
There is at best a $3.50 chance
a school construction bill win pass
the House in the forthcoming
session but virtually no chance"
that it will pass the Senate. At
the moment this legislation is "a
casualty Of the battle Of the budg-
ct" Mr.. Nixon believes q ma
iority Of Congress favors a bill
limited to construction and with a
clear prohibition against any Fed
eral control of education. Even
this won't come. he believes. un-
less Congress becomes convinced
through a stepped-up campaign
starting at the local level that the
classroom shortage is so critical
that emergency Federal action is
mot just desirable but urgently
necessary"
MODERN REPUBLICANISM-
The debate about modern Repub-
licanism." Mr.. Nixon believes. has
exaggerated the differences within
the Republican Party. and the
difference between a modern Re-
publican" and the traditional Re-
publican is not so great that It
cannot be reconciled enough so
that the party will present q
united front in the elections next
year and in 1860. The real split
within the Republican Party, he
feels. Is in the area Of foreign
policy. but under the leadership
Of the Eisenhower administration
there has been a shift. with in
creasing support from those Re-
publicans who have in the past
opposed reciprocal trade. mutual
assistance and other international
programs.