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    "ocrText": "12 (7/5 1.50 p.m.)\nMR. HAGERTY: Your statement that you made was not\ncorrect.\na. I accept your correction.\nQ. Could Secretary Quarles enlighten us on this?\nSECRETARY QUARLES: Well, I would like to try to.\nThe Congress has voted the extra appropriation and the Air Force\nfirst consulted with General Twining and the Air Staff and then\nrecommending to the Secretary of Defense, and through channels\nto the Congress, will study the -- our problems of funding\nthe program in the year ahead. We will make recommendations\nfor the use of the funds normally appropriated and for such part\nof the additional funds as seem wise to us to carry out the\nprogram and the intent of the Congress as expressed in the\nlegislation.\nJust when the additional monies would be recommended\nto be spent as compared with the budgets -- the President's\noriginal budget as voted by the Congress, I think we are not,\nat this time, in a position to say.\nI think Mr. Wilson made it very clear that we have\nevery intent of studying this thing objectively and carefully\nas soon as we can now get at it in carrying out the legislative\nprogram and appropriation.\nQ. I would like to ask this question of General\nTwining. He may already have answered it in part. But there\nhave been many reports that there is disagreement between you\nand Secretary Wilson, and I believe you, in testimony before\nthe\nCongress, have taken an opposite viewpoint from the Secretary\nas to the strength of our air power. Are you now satisfied\nthat this country is doing all that it should do in the matter\nof our Air Force?\nRemeal\nBE\nGENERAL TWINING: I think, if the programs that the\nAir Force recommended are carried out, I think that we will have\nthe Air Force we should have for this country, at this time, today.\nQ. General, could I ask you this question about the\nPresident's reaction? Would you say, in a word, that he was\nalarmed by your report?\nGENERAL TWINING: No.\nQ. Could you characterize his reaction to your report?\nGENERAL TWINING: Here we go right back. If I do that,\nI naturally would have to go back into an evaluation, and\ngentlemen, I would really like to hold that over for the Congress.\nQ. General, you say if the Air Force programs that\nare recommended are carried out, will be all right. Well now,\nare those programs, the ones which are now -- are all of those\nprograms now in the Defense budget?\nGENERAL TWINING: For 1957? Yes. I think the record\nis clear how I stood on the 1957 budget. Very clear.\nQ. Thank you, sir.\nEND"
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