Eisenhower

We particularly addressed ourselves to the question of German reunification.

I know we share the urgent hope that there may be returned to the Congress a Republican majority that will work with the Executive Branch in completing the program that we believe is in the best interests of all America.

We are agreed that this aim shall be achieved only by peaceful means.

To this kind of government we have dedicated ourselves.

Together we built our platform of convictions and pledges.

Government spending was slashed by billions.

In Korea, 14 months ago, the futile waste of American life and treasure was stopped.

I do, however, feel confident that an equitable pay program can and will be enacted in the next Congress if members of our party are retained in positions of leadership.

The Chancellor was assured that the United States stands ready, now as in the past, to offer every support and assistance considered useful in accomplishing this end.

I consider Mr. Adenauer one of the great statesmen of our time, and one of the best informed men on Western European affairs that I have met.

There is no responsible official in this department that hasn’t had orders that, in recruiting for the civil service, a man’s party affiliation will make no slightest difference and give him none.

As a matter of fact, I probably, if I had anything to do with it, would discipline the person that gave you the copy, if I knew them.

I have nothing to announce, no speeches to make, at least unless provoked. [Laughter]

As far as appropriate time for talking with the Communist authorities, whenever that time is appropriate and we have a reason to believe they are sincere, why, we will talk any time with anyone who wants sincerely to promote peace.

There is just no real alternative to peace, as I tried to express it.

The scientists who have come to see me exhibit no such attitude.

I don’t know why there is apathy.

If ever I attempt to make foreign policy, basic foreign policy, a partisan issue, I wish one of you people would remind me very forcefully.

Well, you base your whole question on a statement that you say appears to be a Republican attitude at the moment.

I believe that America’s success, therefore, over these last 2 years in that foreign field, and at home in going from a war to a peace economy without real depression—which has been customary and historical and is almost expected—those two…

Far from disenchantment, it is just too much satisfaction from it.

Of course, in certain activities it is obvious that secrecy must be maintained, let us say, in the departments that are working out the forecasts of crops for next year, and so on.

Indeed I have. It is nothing in the world but an effort to get the best kind of people applying for governmental service that you can get, to get the White House out of the channel, so far as possible, to get these people recommending to…

I believe that there is a number, it is in the small hundreds, that were appointed, but only tentatively appointed, since January 1953 that are included in this group.

In the average case, the normal case, for the Associate Justices, I should think it would be a good practice to bring in people who have had real experience on the courts.