Evening star., 1961-03-01
what plans you may have now
to achieve this end?
Improving Program

WAldI plans you may nave now
to achieve this end?
Improving Program
A. We are attempting to i'm
prove our exchange program on
a reciprocal basis with the
Soviet Union, and we have been
engaged in that activity for
some time.
@. Yes, but have you defined
any special areas in which you
could cooperate without any
harm to our national security?
A. When we have been able
to work out any successful ex-
changes or new exchanges, we
will announce them. But we are
Of course concerned that they
will be reciprocal, and national
security will be protected, and
also that it will contribute to
some useful purpose. We have,
as you know, we have had re-
Gently here in Washington the
meeting which had been ar
ranged some months ago on
meteorology, in which the So
Wet representative was unable
to be here, which was a source
Of regret. There are other pro-
posals we have made for the
long-range exploration of space,
weather control, and so on, and
we are going to continue to
attempt to engage the Soviet
Union in a common effort OF
that kind of activity.
@. Mr.. President, you told
an earlier press conference that
for every new program you set
up, you would suggest a source
OF revenue Does that mean,
for example, in the case of the
education program that you
are going to suggest some spe-
cial way of financing that?
Recommendations Due
A. No, what I said was that
for the proposals we would
make. we would have a sug-
geSted source Of revenue, and
by the end Of the month, when
we send up our completed
budgetary recommendations for
'6l-'62, we will also suggest
sources Of revenue.
Now. in the case of unem-
ployment compensation, aid to
dependent children, and social
security. and highways, and
medical care for the aged, we
did suggest the appropriation.
On the suggestion of the ap-
preparation on agriculture and
on education there is no direct
actual link to those, but we
will have some proposals to
make before the end Of the
month to bring that section
Of the budget which we have
effected in line with the reve-
nues. I have excluded, of
course, from the beginning,
what we do in the field of ma
tional security.
@. A sort Of an overall bal
ancing out is what you have
in mind in the case Of educa-
ton, and not a specific source,
but some general program for
changing the revenue.
A. think as I have stated.
we are going to suggest revenues
for any expenditures that we
make which do not have by
themselves or linked to them a
source OF revenue as the other
programs did.
Queried on Deficit
@. Have you made any esti-
mate as to whether there will
be a deficit in fiscal year 1862?
A. We will send to the Con-
gress, I believe on March %,
our view on what the 90 budget
will look like. We have not COM
pleted our programs, and we
have not completed our an
alysis of the tax revenues at
this time.
Q. Mr.. President, there is a
report that there is a billion
and a half deficit in sight. Is
that correct?
A. I would prefer to, wait
until we are able to complete
our programs because the
amount of the budget is tied
pretty much to what we rec
ommend. All these programs.
with the exception Of defense,
will be finished by the goth,
and we will then be in a posi-
ton to-. OF course, the final
budget deficit will depend quite
a lot on what we do in the
field Of national security. I
have not finished making a
Judgment on how much we
should recommend in addition
to the present.
Burden Sharing
@. Mr.. President, the aide
memoir. which was handed to
DR.. Won Brentano emphasized
the need for burden sharing
on defense and foreign aid in
the Atlantic community. Can
you speak somewhat more pre-
cisely on your ideas on this
burden sharing2
A. Yes. I hope that all the
members of the Atlantic COM
will contribute accord
ing to their resources for the
maintenance Of NATO and for
the assistance to the newly
emerging countries, and that
the burden will be commonly
assumed, and the DECD dis
cussions. the discussions-the
bilateral discussions with the
Germans, discussions which are
going to take place in March
and in April in Europe-I am
hopeful will lead to that result.
Q. Mr.. President, sir, in view
OF the criticism that has oc-
CURED, could you elaborate on
why YOU have not racoYn.