SPENDING BY KENNEDY

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29368, 22 November 1960, Page 17

SPENDING BY KENNEDY

Nixon Hopes For No “Spree”

MIAMI, November 21

The United States Vice-Presi-dent. Mr Richard Nixon, said in a filmed television interview last night he shared the hope with millions of other Americans that President-elect John Kennedy would not start a spending spree after taking office. Mr Nixon granted the first personal interview of his Florida holiday, before leaving on Saturday on a trip to Nassau.. Bahamas. Mr Nixon said he hoped that bigspending programmes of the Democrats would have “tough sledding” in Congress and added: “That’s as it should be. It would be bad for the country.” A Washington dispatch on the front page of the “New York Times” today said the strengthened conservative coalition would be a force to be reckoned with in the new House of Representatives, according to the chief Republican strategist of the twoparty alliance. Representative Charles A. Halleck, of Indiana, said in an interview: “I’m not going for a lot of radical, wild-eyed spendthrift proposals that will do the country severe damage.” Mr Halleck thus confidently served notice of the coalition’s determination to defeat or modify much of the liberal legislative programmes expected to be submitted to Congress next year by Senator Kennedy, the New York “Times” said. He said he had not consulted the leader of the coalition’s Democratic contingent, Howard Smith.