Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

The contract provision relating to nondiscrimination in employment, recommended by the Committee on Government Contracts, is hereby approved.

Executive Order 10557—Approving the Revised Provision in Government Contracts Relating to Nondiscrimination in Employment

09/02/1954

More Dwight Eisenhower Quotes

Let’s have no more family bickering--fancied or real.

We started off in 1952 to break away from the kind of government... that wants to put all power, all direction of our economy... in the hand...

All we have to do is to give of ourselves—not money, not alone.

We wanted to restore more authority to localities, to states and above all to individuals, whether he be a farmer, a worker, a business man ...