Show truman labors under 14 new deal inheritance i congress Con oress seen taking advantage of presidents rightist leanings lacks influence of to put policies over by news analyst anti and commentator bic jl lv A service 1610 eye street NW f washington D 0 3 it t was a cool crisp winter day A week before the erratic wash A ington weather hod had seduced a whole carple of credulous pa panales esles which pushed their startled faces up from the garden on the white house lawn poor bemused floral they we re toon soon frozen as a solid in their beds bed as the presidents Vo labor legislation in congress t we hurried along pennsylvania avenue our coat collars turned up arguing heatedly as newsmen do when they are released from the inhibitions hibit ions which seize them the moment they sit down and meet the solemn stare of their typewriter i keyboards with that threatening noose the deadline tightening about the medulla gata the most astounding thing said ono one of us Is the way Tru truman mati with all his experience in congress congre so cant get along with it iche if he would only bulton buttonhole holo some of the thinkers in the opposition say Vanden beig in the senate and men me ilka wollcott in dihe the house and appeal t to 0 their sense of patriotism he have all this trouble 00 it jait as simple fimple ax as that interrupted another no aa we paused to show our photographic passes to the i guard fit at the gate who ha bas known us all by our first names for a decade but who always solemnly gjud studies our cards as athey 11 they were aliases it as simple lepla as ae that after fill all congress has to be realistic in an election year they ore are facing real issues and the i dents program realistic whether or not it Is 13 realistic the third member althe of the group put in after all it his program lie inherited it its new dealand deal and the new deal Is old hat now it represent harry Tr ideas at all but lie he has to go through with it all I 1 felt 10 I 1 old could add to those sape sage observations without agreeing that the new deal was old net haf or the latest downing street model whether it was realistic or modernistic or neo marxian was that it 9 probable that if the presidents president were able jo io shatter his inheritance to bits and then y it to something nearer lil his s hearts desire ho he could probably put 4 a lot more pep into his silling shiling talk to 1 congress by this time we were adding our ia i costs coats to the huge pile of garments on the great aguinaldo mahogany table in the lobby jobby odthe of the executive 1 offices andt and taking akini our place in the line outside the conference room resentment shades chiefs feelings on this particular day the president started off with the note on which the whole conI conference trence was carried I 1 I 1 dont quite know how to describe it ile he kept smiling he lose his temper but there was waa just a shade of 0 resentment in his voice and hla his words it all sounded more like the later somewhat disillusioned days ot of his predecessor than the merry moments when a roosevelt Hoose veU interview was mas always A good show as well as aa agnews a news ful ul event I mean the early days be fore the weight of war descended upon wearying bro brow w there Is a weight on truman t today oday quite as an heavy tor for peace has ito ts miseries as well vell as war just as it was freely predicted that fethe the united states will never stand for an occupying army for any length of time which proved to be so painfully correct so BO everyone took for granted that any president in office when the war ended would have an impossible job but lets get back to the crowded office of I 1 the president on the winter day I 1 am am describing lis he sat there J exchanging wise cracks with the men in the first row on the table behind him were the photographs of his family crowned with a great bunch of jon culls from the white house green gi eon house ile he looked cheerful enough the usual signal all in was sound ed he stood epand up and began to talk about what he called a tempest in a teacup the t controversy over building on an addition to the white house personally I 1 think it Is the height ol of tolly folly to continue the el ef fort begun by theodore roosevelt to try to house the office work of the president under the root roof 0 of f ah the presidents house but I 1 mention this controversy simply because it reflects the seamy side of white house congress relations many of the presidents friends feel that trying to make 6 modern odlee out of a beautiful old Ameri american cai colonial residence Is folly but they also felt that much of the furor raised in congress was due to a desire to embarrass barrass mr truman why cant truman get on with congress perhaps because he Is a little too much like them this is merely a hunch but I 1 am not the only one who has toyed with the both congress and the president 1 I realize that congress Is a loose term because the legislators are a collection of many men md of mony many minds inclines farther to the right than the inherited roosevelt program is targeted congress the part of it that knows harry truman well undoubtedly feels that his heart leans just about os as for far in the same direction therefore he just cant got get these more ideas across harry truman has a tremendous respect for the of tho the presidency a deep feeling of duty to carry out the program which death placed infill in his handia duty and a function he never sought lie he cannot toss tosa this heritage into the discard and he probably reasons that it t ho he feels eels that responsibility the members of the party should do likewise but it must bo be remembered that it was the powerful influence of a personality which could win an ah election tour our times a task no american had dared to attempt even for or the third which kept co congress n obedient obed obe leht diett and even then toward theand the end only falteringly truman reveals ilia his true sell self on this particular day of which 11 I 1 urn am speaking I 1 think we hoard heard truman revealing his true self ll 11 he be llevis that the white house should be enlarged ile ho resented the opposition which lie he suspected was at least in part personal and political rather than th the product of sincere conviction I 1 thought I 1 heard that in his voice dut but I 1 also think I 1 heard in his words a similar expression of his own philosophy whon when he said that he thought tho the present industrial strife was a struggle to or r power between labor and manageri man management agern in other words that tha basically it was not the demands of the men wild who work for more pay nor was it ii an objection on the ole part of industry to pay higher wages as much as it was a pitch battle between labor leaders leaden and the top men in mans management to see which could beat the other down to one who brags about being middle class without even a drop of blood of an irish king in his veins it sounded like good sound call it stuffy if you want middle class resentment sent ment then the president added that he thought that both labor and management had too much power and etwas it was time tor for the gov to step in and assert the power of the people which government ine nt Is suppo supposed ted to represent but when we asked the tho president it and how the government masgo was going to assert itself to exert the power of the people to settle tho the mm mess all he said was that he had done oil all that he possibly could do lie he could have called out the army and the ahe navy tho the national guard the FBI band and the united marching and social clubs and talc tak en over the steel industry tho the next day but a step like that which wits was no more than the wave of a tapering cigarette hold holder er yesterday was one which no cautious middle class middle western middle of th the e road american would me like to take except under duress 1 I say that as one such and so congress part of it responding to the pressure of management and part of it under tho the pressure of labor fiddles and filibusters while industry contentedly lives oft off its tat fat labor on union funds or relief arid and the people with all their alleged power wonder how long oh lord how longi |