Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

I think I brought it up because of the fact I didn't know it until several weeks later.

I have expressed myself a number of times on the right of the people here to vote.

I believe in free enterprise, and I believe in the exercise by the States of the rights that are specifically reserved to them.

Everything that I can constitutionally do will be done to prevent the outbreak of hostilities in that section.