Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

"However, any debt management device which would seek to interfere with the natural interaction of the competitive forces of our free economy and produce unnatural reductions in interest rates would no..."

"The enactment of this program is essential to sound conduct of the Government's financial affairs."

"It must also be managed as economically as possible in terms of interest costs."

"The achievement of a fiscal position that allows our revenues to cover our expenditures--as well as to produce some surplus for debt retirement-will improve substantially the environment in which debt..."