Eisenhower

I earnestly hope that the American people will earn these rewards anew by contributing to this year's Community Chest and United Defense Funds with an inspired generosity and a true warmth of heart.

I extend my most sincere wishes for their overwhelming success.

Executive Order No. 10266 of June 30, 1951, entitled 'Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as Amended, Which Relate to Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps,' is hereby revoked.

Thus still more Federal intervention becomes necessary.

With everything that deals with your money--your pocketbooks--and the economy of your country, that Government tries to be conservative.

In this effort, we shall avoid extremes.

Abraham Lincoln put it better than anyone else has done.

The wise control of our water resources obviously requires the most skillful and comprehensive planning.

Where local enterprise can shoulder the burden, it will be encouraged and supported in doing so.

That, I think, sums up in about two sentences the philosophy of the Government you now have in Washington.

With everything that affects your relationship to your Federal Government, that Government means to be liberal, human, sympathetic--always.

My friends, to join you in so important a ceremony--here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest--is indeed a privilege.

General, we have got ourselves in a funny fix.

These believers in centralization fail to warn us that monopoly is always potentially dangerous to freedom--even when monopoly is exercised by the Government.

This program, as all other programs in which your Government engages, is designed to benefit the United States of America--160 million people.

I have learned this: there is no honor one American can receive that is greater than the readiness of his fellow citizens to meet with him for a brief moment.

It is not properly a Federal responsibility to try to supply all the power needs of our people.

In all that the people can individually do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

I must be on my way.

Here you are, an old General, trying to turn politician.

Such a conversion of local regions into Federal satellites poses a threat deadly to our liberties.

Thank you very much, my friends--thank you.

I am deeply complimented by the presence of every person here today.

It was in this spirit that those who preceded you in the great Northwest, in only a century and a half, turned an unsettled wilderness into an inland empire--an empire vastly enriched by this gigantic structure which today we so proudly…

My friends, I am on a hurried trip, and I hope you will allow me to thank each of you for coming out for these few minutes, so that I might greet you--to bring you greetings from your Government, to gain the inspiration that I always gain…