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    "ocrText": "- 39 -\nWherry said that he thought the President ought to ask Congress for what\nhe needed, and that he should ask for all powers short of a national\nemergency.\nCongressman McCormack asked to be excused for speaking a second\ntime, and said that he would like to concur with what Senator Wiley had\nsaid. This is indeed a question of \"adequacy.\" If the declaration of\nnational emergency would make the Executive Branch more adequate to deal\nwith this crisis, then it should be issued. He did want to recommend to\nthe President that he take action at the same time he went on the air to\nspeak to the people. The President should not, Mr. McCormack said, just\ntell the people what was on his mind, he should tell them what he was\ndoing about it.\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES\na\nSERVICE\nsow\nSpeaker Rayburn said he agreed 100 per cent with Congressman\nMcCormack. The President ought to act at the same time as he speaks\nit would be even better if he acted before he speaks.\nThe President then arose to adjourn the meeting, but Secretary\nSnyder said he had one statement that he wished to make before the group\nleft the room. He said he wanted Senator Taft to understand that the\n$4 billion tax bill was not sacrosanct. Recommendation for that bill had\nbeen made before the Chinese communists entered the war. At no time had\nanybody, either before or after the Chinese came in, pretended that that"
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