To talk in the generalities in which they were speaking is not, in itself, a proposal.
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.
This whole business of disarmament has to proceed along in steps, and sometimes very tiny steps, until you can see what the next one must be; and I don't know exactly what the next one must be.
I find that the further modification of the concession granted in the said General Agreement with respect to alsike clover seed described in the said item 763 to permit the application to such seed of the duty treatment hereinafter…
We believe that great opportunities are opening up for a great increase in understanding with our friends, the Japanese.
I don't want to comment on the procedures of either Senate or House action, because it is their business, and it is not for me to interfere to say how they shall do things.
Today, we are all too conscious of the fact that human rights are better named than done.
Any time in this business that something keeps you from devoting your mind to some particular current problem, you regret it.
I consider this whole question of lessening of tensions so important that we cannot allow anyone to stray off the path one single iota.





