Work Done

Last week the President:

P:Signed bills 1) extending rent controls until July 31, and 2) authorizing daylight saving time for the District of Columbia each summer at the discretion of the district commissioners--thus putting an end to the annual wrangles in Congress over the District's daylight time.

P:Sent Congress a reorganization plan for the Export-Import Bank, to abolish a cumbersome board of directors, concentrate management in a single director.

P:P:Ordered Robert D. Murphy to stay on in Japan, with ambassadorial rank, as an adviser to General Mark Clark during Korean peace negotiations.

P:Nominated for U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan: Horace A. Hildreth, 50, president of Bucknell University and onetime (1945-49) governor of Maine.

P:Designated Georgia's tornado-scourged Muscogee and Macon counties as major disaster areas, thus qualifying the areas for FHA-guaranteed repair and replacement loans.

P:Asked Congress to help him name a bipartisan commission for "a broad-gauge study" and "thorough reexamination" of U.S. foreign-trade policy. The commission's report, Eisenhower hoped, would become the "basis for action during the session of Congress."

P:Passed on to a friend one of his own maxims: "Don't miss too many opportunities to keep your mouth shut."

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