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new President will face in a brief but comprehensive feature article. As it observed, the job offers many unique assets and prerogatives. The Chief Executive lives in one of the most magnificent homes on earth. Legions of assistants and servants are at his beck and call. He is treated with the utmost deference by everyone. Hardly a wish goes unfulfilled. He is paid a large salary and receives a $50,000-a-year tax-free expense fund in addition.
But all these material benefits lost much of their lustre in the light of the enormous problems with which the President must deal—and of the fateful decisions he, and he alone, must make.
The U.S. News _ article is called “Troubles Ahead For Next President." Here, in capsule form, is the gist of what the magazine anticipates for him:
DEBT. Soon the national debt will
ceiling. The President will have to choose between asking Congress to raise that ceiling or cut the spending. Either way, he will make political enemies.
WAR. 'It seem% certain that the Korean War will still be going when he takes office, even though it may be relatively passive. This is a stalemated, totally unpopular war. What will he advocate to end it? BUSINESS. Many economists think that the boom is running down. Next year, it is forecast, there will be a substantial decline in industrial expansion. There will probably be a drop in profits — and that will bring a drop in tax collections, making the budget problem still more difficult. The ranks of the unemployed will be swelled. All this may happen very soon after the next President moves into the White House. AGRICULTURE. Some farm commodities are—ina surplus state now. Other surpluses are anticipated. So, as U.S* News put it, ‘The next President is to be caught between the pressure of city people interested in cheaper food and a farm population Insisting that government support farm prices against substantial decline.” ,
BUREAUCRACY- The President is the titular boss of 6,200,000 people —2,500,000 civilians and 3,700,000 military. This huge payroll is one of
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