I am confident that the warm bonds of friendship and mutual interest, which have bound our two countries so closely in the past, will remain firm and enduring under your able guidance.

But, denied that opportunity, I extend warm greetings to each of you present, along with my best wishes for a most successful evening.

I would deem it an honor to be personally present at this testimonial dinner, so as to share even more intimately in the tribute that the assembled group is paying to its guest of honor.

You and I are fortunate to have such a man in our Nation's service.

In personal conferences in my office, I can always count on George Humphrey to be a strong, able, and assertive counsellor.

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941, do hereby call upon our people to observe Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of…

On that day let all of us, in accordance with our hallowed custom, forgather in our respective places of worship and bow before God in contrition for our sins, in suppliance for wisdom in our striving for a better world, and in gratitude…

I too regard the forthcoming Philippine elections as a vital test of democracy for the Philippine Republic.

I know that I speak for the American people when I say that all of us are indeed interested in what is happening in the Philippines.

The Philippine people, whom I know well, are a proud people.

I do hereby invite and urge the people of the Nation to devote themselves anew on Wednesday, November 11, 1953, to the task of promoting with fervor and zeal a permanent peace among all the peoples of the earth.

WHEREAS it is essential that the citizens of the United States be informed concerning the activities of their government