“We expect to ask the Congress this coming year for as much money for this purpose [Point Four] as we think can usefully be spent, and we expect that the Congress will, as in the past, patriotically respond. Also we shall seek somewhat more fiexibility than heretofore.” (John Foster Dulles, De- cember 8, 1955, before the Illinois Manufacturers Association. Emphasis supplied.) A shrewd political scientist once ob- served that to suppose that federal appropriations are requested on the basis of need is to misunderstand the federal bureaucracy; the bureaucrat’s annual problem, he said, is to figure out ways in which the money he knows can be got can be spent.
There is a sense in which Secretary
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