Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

My friends, to join you in so important a ceremony--here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest--is indeed a privilege.

That, I think, sums up in about two sentences the philosophy of the Government you now have in Washington.

It was in this spirit that those who preceded you in the great Northwest, in only a century and a half, turned an unsettled wilderness into ...

Thus still more Federal intervention becomes necessary.