Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1960-10-01 / 10. szám
FRATERNITY OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA Editor-in-Chief: George E. K. Borshy. — Managing Editor: Joseph Kecskemethy. — Associate Editors: Emery Király and László L. Eszenyi. — Chief Contributor: Alexander Daroczy. Published monthly. — Subscription for non-members in the U. S. A. and Canada $2.00, elsewhere $3.00 a year. Office of Publication: Expert Printing Co., 4627 Irvine St., Pittsburgh 7, Pa. Editorial Office: Kossuth House, 1801 “P” St., N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Volume XXXVIII OCTOBER 1960 Number 10 WHO’LL BE...? Who’ll be the next President of the United States? This is the question on millions of minds now, but few people realize how different the question was in 1787. Then, at the Constitutional Convention, the hotly debated question was: Should we have a President? Many of the delegates were afraid that a single Chief executive would have altogether too many chances to turn himself into a dictator. They favored, instead, the establishment of a three-man executive committee to carry out the will of the Legislature. The most important reason why supporters of a one-man executive finally won out may well have been that everybody was sure that George Washington — whom all the delegates knew and trusted — would get the job. Washington thought he had his hands full as President of a 13-state U. S. A. with a population of 3.9 million. “These public meetings with reference to and from different departments of state are as much if not more than I am able to undergo”, he wrote in 1790. But over the past 170 years, the President’s job has grown as fast as the U. S. itself. Washington, during a typical year of his administration, signed 44 laws and one executive order; President Eisenhower has maintained an average of 944 laws and 60 executive orders a year. Washington’s first budget was written on a single sheet of paper; the current Eisenhower budget runs to 1,030 pages. Today’s President holds down not one job, but five — any one of which could fill an eight-hour day. He is: * Head of State, the nation’s chief ceremonial officer. * Chief Diplomat, the leader of the Free World and the U. S.’s top representative in its dealing with other nations. * Chief Legislative Policy-maker with power to exercise tremendous influence on the making of our laws. * Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. * Chief Executive, the boss of all Federal employees. There is no question about it: when you go to the polls on November 8 you’ll be choosing the man you consider best qualified to handle one of the toughest jobs in the world — President of the United States. John A. Wells
