Evening star., 1961-11-29

QulreS cO-OperaJl0n between the
Federal Government and the
States and the communities, so
that we will have a program
and a budget to send to Con-
greSs in January.
The emphasis will be on the
community shelters, and infor-
nation will be made available
to the individual as to what
he could do with his own home.
but the central responsibility,
it seems to me, is for US to
provide community shelters. It
seems the most effective use
of our resources. to provide the
best security for our people.
@. Mr.. President, there have
been reports of sizeable finan-
cial contributions to the sort
of right-wing extremist groups
that you criticized last week.
Do you regard this as a danger
to the elective process and will
you press in the next session for
some form of Federal financing
of elections?
A. AS you know we set up a
committee to provide for Fed
eral-or at least to reconsider
the whole problem Of financing
presidential elections. That was
their only responsibility. There
is a committee in the Senate
which has examined other
methods of financing other
campaigns. AS I understand it,
what you are referring to is
contributions by some individu-
ais or groups to right-wing
movements and not so much
candidates. is that correct?
@. Yes.
A. AS long as they meet the
requirements of the tax laws,
II don't think that the Federal
Government can interfere or
should interfere with the right
of any individual to take any
position he wants. The only
thing we should be concerned
about is that it does not rep
resent a diversion of funds
which might be taxable for
non taxable purposes. But that
is another question and ! am
sure the Internal Revenue Sys-
TEN will examine that. But l
would not want to interfere
with the right of any individ-
ual to give his own finances or
support to any movement that
he chooses to do so, providing
he comes within the law and
the present laws of the United
States.
@. Mr.. President. the General
Assembly last night voted to
urge all nations to take sepa-
rate and collective action to
force South Africa to abandon
+ its racial policy. What specific
steps would you favor the
United States taking to imple-
ment that resolution?
A. I have not examined the
language of the Assembly res
olution so l am not able to
answer that.
G. Mr.. President, last year
before the session of Congress
began, you listed domestic and
foreign legislation that would
be must" for that session of
Congress. Can you at this time
list your priorities for legisla-
ton in the upcoming CongressP
A. No, I think that I should
do that in the state-of the
Union address, and We will.
Quite obviously, we have
touched on one of the matters
which are of Importance. civil
defense, and 1 talked previously
to this, but another matter is
medical care for the aged. But
the general program should
wait, I think, until January.
@. Would you clarity one
thing? There seems to be con-
fusion and conflicting reports
about whether you are going to
press for a more liberal trade
policy. Has the decision been
made on that yet?
A. A preliminary suggestion
has been made in regard to the
matter, yet, and will be an
nounced in January. And once
again there are some consulta-
tions which must be made and
will be made with the members
of Congress who have RESPONSE
bility in the area, in the month
of December, and then we will
go to the Congress- in January
with our program.
@. Mr.. President, Senator
Goldwater has indicated his op-
position to us becoming asso-
ciated with the Common Mar
ket. Would you comment on
that and perhaps sum up for
us the possible effect the Com
mon Market might have on the
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