下面出国留学网小编为大家推荐的英语听力材料是怀特艾森豪威尔与记者的精彩问答---一个留下很多未解谜团的总统:PWe Have Cut Expenditures 我们已经降低了支出，没有发现秘密协议。详细内容如下：
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Reporter: Merriman Smith, United Press: Mr. President, we have heard something of this from other sources, but we wonder if you could tell us about the reasons and your plans to ask Congress to postpone the corporation and excise tax reduction next year?
记者：我是合众社的梅里曼?史密斯，总统先生，我们从其他渠道听到了一些事情，但是我们想知道你是否能告诉我们你要国会推迟明年减少税收实践的计划和原因?
Eisenhower: Well, it is a very simple process. As I have told you before, the financial affairs of the Government are really very complicated, and they have numbers of unknown factors. One of them is the expenditures, what they are going to be, which always have to be estimated in advance. Another is income. And the other, of course, is the deficit and its effect on the value of the dollar, which introduces, definitely a variable factor. This administration has been very much in favor, as you know, of extending such things as social security coverage, unemployment coverage, and all that sort of thing. There are two reasons for that一there are three reasons: one, of course, is the humanitarian, giving to these people a feeling of security and confidence. Two, the added stability you get in times of recession; you keep up the income ...