The prosperity of the agricultural community is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the nation.
Eisenhower
The Public Record
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.
The farmer is not just a farmer, he is a citizen of the United States, first and always.
I congratulate you heartily both on when you were born, what you have done, and what you are going to do.
I am tempted to talk for just a moment about the most important crop of all in this country: yourselves.
There is no question about the commonsense--the logic of the decisions that will be reached by the American public when they are informed.
As a farm individual, you are first close to the soil and from the soil must come all the things by which we live.
In view of your demonstrated interest in traffic accident prevention in California, I am certain that your participation in the work of the Committee will be of great benefit.
I sincerely hope that you will be able to undertake this direct liaison responsibility.
He now believes that the functioning of the Committee will be improved by having an individual other than the Chairman to represent each of the seven fields of interest covered by the Committee membership.
It is gratifying to know that you will be turning your interest and broad experience in traffic problems to the urgent traffic safety program.
I need emphasize to you the importance of a close tie between the two groups.
No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of employees or any carrier.
They are convinced that the achievement of the policies upon which Germany and the United States are embarked will continue to require closest cooperation in the future.
The answers can be found only by broadly informed, wisely sympathetic, spiritually inspired minds, the product of general education that properly blends the practical and technical with the liberal and cultural.
I repeat: this kind of education is sorely needed in this country--and throughout the world.
Our Nation has no desire for a monopoly on the knowledge and practice of these possibilities.
The scientists themselves are all agreed as to what now must be done and they are pushing it to do it.
But the bill, on the whole, as it came out of the committee represented a tremendous advance over anything we had ever had.
My recommendations and the reasons for them were given in my annual message, and I have seen nothing to change them.
I think some of you people know, you might say, the constitutional limitations that are on the President in this country from going away and staying as long as he pleases.





