On the Eighth Day Herbert

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to Congress asking that tax-saving Hoover Commission recommendations be adopted. I shall continue to urge elimination of new spending proposals in this budget, including the fourteen grants-to-states programs. It may be necessary to cut this budget at a flat percentage rate across the board. The fact that nearly 1,200 pages are required to present the budget indicates the size of the task involved in trying to cut it item by item.