Eisenhower

I think that the particular issues in which there should be some agreement are well understood.

I believe if we get such a thing established, I would like to do it with the greatest possible cooperation of everybody that has an interest in the Government.

I haven't put in a bill.

We can achieve a program of peace.

I will only say this: in all such proposals, as always, you have to take a look at all the details that are placed before you.

Yes, I heard from Governor Stassen, had his report this morning, which is long enough to require more study than I have been able to give it before I would want to comment on it at any length.

I have never indulged in that kind of talk.

We are always keeping forces in the Mediterranean, as you well know.

I think it is perfectly correct. I am the head of the administration, and I have been shot at before.

I would be very happy to see the United Nations take a bigger and firmer hold and get more nations that are capable of contributing.

I am not going to challenge anybody else's motives.

I do want to point out there is a very, very long distance between a laboratory capacity or capability of doing something and making an instrument, a really efficient, effective instrument of war.

I now request Congress to pass a straight Soil Bank Bill as promptly as possible.

The problem is price-depressing surpluses.

Our farm families are suffering reduced incomes.

This bill does not meet their needs.

We now have sound and forward-looking legislation in the Agricultural Act of 1954.

I conclude that the bill is contradictory and self-defeating even as an emergency relief measure.

I am ready to sign a sound Soil Bank Act as soon as Congress sends it to me.

Nevertheless, the materials presented by the Department of the Interior convince me that a satisfactory and adequate basis has not been established for appraising the merits and the equity of the claims.

I return herewith, without my approval, H. R. 6421, 'For the relief of Roy Cowan and others.'

The bill directs the payment of sums aggregating $276,568 to twenty-eight individuals in settlement of claims for damages based on the flooding of privately-owned lands.

As a result, the record before me is one of unresolved disagreements of fact and law.

In my judgment this is a case in which there has been an unfortunate failure in communications between the Executive and Legislative branches of the Government.

Under the circumstances I believe that I have no choice but to return the bill without my approval.