Government has tried to work with people, rather than to try to dominate them—rather than to boss them.
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 traffic of Government must not encounter red lights at every crossroads in Washington.
This Government that you have has a heart, as well as a head, and as long as there is any unemployment, this is going to be a major problem of attack for them.
We must not conclude that both can at the same time be captains of the Ship of State.
If there are enough people who vote, we will be all right, because I am quite certain that the great vast majority that voted in 1952 still feels the same way.
Money available to all of us, after taxes, is at an all-time peak for spending.
There is a team, a team made up of congressional leaders and executive leaders.
With understanding and support among Federal employees, I know we will succeed.
No man could have done more effective work than you to further that hope.
We have proved at last that America can go from war to peace without a terrifying depression.
We are convinced that with the coming into effect of the Agreements signed this past weekend, the road towards a strong and united Europe will have been paved.
These are some of the accomplishments that came about through the cooperation of Congress and the Administration in our joint effort to provide improved personnel management and sound benefits for Federal employees.
I appreciate the concern that the Congress had for the pay of Federal workers, and I regret that I could not conscientiously approve its approach to the problem.
Whenever my burdens tend to feel unduly heavy, I admire all the more the tremendous job you have done since the opening of the present campaign.
We have no doubt that the strengthening of free Europe which will result from the recent London and Paris Agreements, will aid our efforts to bring freedom and unity to all of the German people.
It is wonderful to see the bandwagon and the Ike balloon, even if only in the moon.
At home, we have redeemed our pledge of 1952 to give America clean and efficient government.





