Show MR AIR TRUMAN COSTS MORE the senate took appropriate action recently in in i reducing by the presidents funds for personal travel entertainment and housekeeping expenses mr truman has been the nations highest paid pres president ident even franklin roosevelt in office just beyond 12 years received but turned back leaving his salary was per year the congress boosted mr Tr pay to at the beginning of 1949 and voted him another per year expense money on which he pays no tax and has no accounting to make to the public at this rate mr truman will have received approximately by the end of his current term as president by january 20 1953 he then will have been seven years nine months in the white house senator karl harl of south dakota provides further amazing figures as to mr Tr miscellaneous cel laneous expenses harry truman asked for and got in 1947 in 1948 in 1949 in 1950 and in 1951 for 1952 harry truman requested normally commented senator it is a routine procedure for congress to appropriate whatever funds the president requests for his personal expenses however the asking habits of harry truman have disgusted congress it is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worth worthy y of himself and claims kindred to the great god who made him abraham lincoln |