Eisenhower

It was essential to have a continuing bi-partisan approach to foreign affairs and national security matters that would represent the best interests of our nation, regardless of which political party controlled the Congress.

There is no aspiration, there is no dream on the horizons of man's hopes and beliefs and faiths that is so strong, so vivid, as the dream of peace—lasting peace.

I feel that there is nothing--nothing else--that could ever have induced the Eisenhower brothers to attach their name to something which inescapably would have certain elements, let us say, of self-glorification, except that that project…

So if a fighter escort is necessary where we know we have got a right to go, then we ought to use them.

I believe the United States system can stand on its own feet.

So that is where you have--it isn't one of these cases where a plane has come out in the middle toward Hawaii and shot you down.

The United States will continue to examine sympathetically means whereby it can assist the Japanese people to advance their well-being.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty and Protocol submitted herewith, and advise and consent to the ratification thereof subject to the understanding of the United States contained in the Treaty.

I believe we have a good group of foreign officers, as I have repeated time and again.

You will add your part to this great Nation that we call America.

I know it will be very significant to you.

As we seek peace, unless peace is taught in the home by the mother, during that age where everything that is learned and absorbed stays with us so strongly, unless we do this, my friends, there is going to be no peace.

I look forward to early action.

And all of them expressed sentiments in which I am sure you would be glad to join, and that is that Senator Kennedy may soon be restored to full health, and he can be assured of our prayers to that happy event.

I am convinced that economic reconstruction and growth has now reached a point in many countries to warrant further development of the Agreement, so that we may progress with even more assurance toward our ultimate objective.

My letter of June 1, 1953, regarding the organization of the executive branch for the conduct of foreign affairs, continues to represent my instructions on the subjects discussed in that letter.

The arrangements described above and in the Executive order issued today are to continue in effect during fiscal year 1955 or until other arrangements for the administration of foreign aid functions are prescribed by the President after…

I do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 25, 1954, as a day of national thanksgiving, and I call upon all our citizens to observe the day with prayer.

We are grateful that our beloved country, settled by those forebears in their quest for religious freedom, remains free and strong, and that each of us can worship God in his own way, according to the dictates of his conscience.

Any reference in any regulation or other Executive document issued or approved by the President to any provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 shall, except as may be inconsistent with the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or otherwise…

Now, I quoted this: the number of times that on specific divisions, where the leaders of the two parties in the Congress divided, how often these particular chairmen voted with the administration program; I said that represented a…

It would seem to me to be the part of wisdom when you are dealing with humans to meet with them and see what you can get done; just to butt your head up against a stone wall is no good.

So far as I can see, no.

Well, certainly it hasn't so far.

I believe in the two-party system.