Eisenhower
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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.
Always in one hand will be the olive branch held out to all who will take it in honesty and in integrity.
I know that Americans everywhere are the same, in their longing for peace.
There is no question about the commonsense--the logic of the decisions that will be reached by the American public when they are informed.
I congratulate you heartily both on when you were born, what you have done, and what you are going to do.
I am tempted to talk for just a moment about the most important crop of all in this country: yourselves.
The prosperity of the agricultural community is absolutely necessary to the prosperity of the nation.
The farmer is not just a farmer, he is a citizen of the United States, first and always.
When you have the mission of getting hold of the information, not only about the farm programs, but the things that will interest the whole farm community, you are doing a tremendously great service.
As a farm individual, you are first close to the soil and from the soil must come all the things by which we live.
He now believes that the functioning of the Committee will be improved by having an individual other than the Chairman to represent each of the seven fields of interest covered by the Committee membership.
I sincerely hope that you will be able to undertake this direct liaison responsibility.





