Eisenhower

Our Government is servant, not master, our chosen representatives are our equals, not our czars or commissars.

It is faith that has made our Nation--has made it, and kept it free.

It was almost a glory to die.

As I drove on this battlefield just now, it occurred to me, what a spot in which to remind ourselves how much we all want peace.

The tragedy of the disclosures made by your Committee, as I see it, is that a great number of innocent Americans have been forced to pay for the wrongful acts of certain public officials and builders.

Our elan is because of our belief in that: we know that we shall succeed.

In the meantime, thank you all for coming out.

I cannot tell you, my friends, how much that message means.

This is largely due, I believe, to restored public confidence in the operation of the new housing law by public officials dedicated to decent, honest government in the best interests of all the people of our country.

The Attorney General is seeking by civil process to force rebates from the builders who benefited from these huge windfalls.

And I assure you that one of the things we are looking forward to, more than anything else in our lives, is when that day comes that we can go over here and settle down back of Round Top, and begin to raise a few cows of our own.

I am happy to inform you that everything, including Saar, has now been signed, sealed and delivered.

Today there is going on over in Europe negotiations for which I personally have the greatest of hope.

He will continue, at my direction, to take every appropriate legal step against those who have violated their public trust and those who gained easy money at the expense of tenants and the small home owner.

We must have nothing to do with controlling it.

We are, of course, as a nation, dedicated to peace.

That after August 15, 1947, as before that date, the conditions specified in sections 9 (b) and 1 (e) of the said title 17 of the United States Code have, as between the United States and India, existed and been fulfilled, and that…

We will not be controlled by others--we will not be regimented.

I am practically self-invited.

They will be much better enabled to help our unfortunate people.

This America, what it means in terms of our aspirations, our hopes, for ourselves, and our people--and preserving them down through the years.

I would like also to thank those people--the men that are putting this thing up, and taking pride in making sure that the doctors are not going to be stopped by the light suddenly going out, the plumbing going wrong, something happening to…

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim:

I think there is nothing that is more important for us than to realize that a healthy nation is a strong nation--strong in its morale, strong in its economy, strong as it faces the world, no matter what threats it may have to face.

So I really feel this morning that every single person that has the slightest thing to do with this hospital, whether he was signing the bill that made the appropriations possible, or whether he is one of the men that smoothed out the…