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Suggests Budget Trim

"Our country has always
felt the need to keep our
defense posture high. We're
still the leadership of the free
world, though we shouldn't be
the total leadership," he said.

Mr. Robinson suggested
however, that the Nixon
budget could be trimmed, but
not in defense spending. As the
budget stands, it accepts a
$12.7 billion deficit, and "will
increase the national budget by
almost $30 billion."

He endorsed President
Richard Nixon's call for a
spending limit on his proposed
budget but noted that the
President will "be lucky to get,
from a Democrat-controlled
Congress, anything close to the
spending limit he proposed."