Liberty was impossible to sustain unless you made it possible for the people to grow that rice--to have a better living--to gain some kind of education--to get doctors into the barrios and out into the hinterland where none had ever…
Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
If we are really to do our full part in combating communism, we must as a unit stand not only ready as Magsaysay did to bare his breast to the bayonet, but to work day by day for the betterment--the spiritual, moral, intellectual and…
He understood that freedom is not possible to sustain, unless there is some economic base--some way of allowing a man to gain his self-respect through earning his own living.
I signed this with really the prayerful hope that we may be able, with that amount, to sustain the essential interests of the United States in the free world.
I most earnestly hope that the Congress will support this particular part of the bill to the full.
I said that of course none of us would like to see the need for a special session of Congress.
Those casualties were required from us in order to support our security in the world and to stand firmly behind the cause of freedom.
You cannot stand aside and see America's interest deteriorate throughout the world just by inaction.
However, as you people well know, I don't think that any of you ought to interpret anything I say in terms of a threat of any kind.
I believe that under the circumstances existing at the time that war began, the war was necessary.
I think, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the first time I have asked you into an impromptu press conference.
I would say this. Naturally, I am not a lawyer and I don't participate in drawing up the exact language of proposals.





