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...

The achievement of a fiscal position that allows our revenues to cover our expenditures--as well as to produce some surplus for debt retirem...

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.