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.
Dec 13, 1953
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered that the several executive departments, independent establishments, and other governmental agencies in the metropolitan area of the District of…
Dec 13, 1953
Accordingly, I have called a Conference on Highway Safety for Washington next February seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth.
Dec 13, 1953
Will you please forward the names of your state's delegates to the Conference on Highway Safety, Room 1107, General Services Building, Washington 25, D.C.
Dec 13, 1953
Our government is a Republic, and there is a division of power, not only functionally but geographically, with the hope that the maximum of power will be reserved at the local level.
Dec 13, 1953
The winning of war--the effectiveness in such things--is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith.
Dec 13, 1953
But now we have got to a place where the matter can no longer be handled by professional or organized military forces, and where we must all act together in the operation of any plan necessary for our safety.
Dec 13, 1953
Since the Conference program will be built around seven basic groups--labor, agriculture, business, women, public officials, media of public information and other organizations (service, fraternal, religious, veterans, etc.), I would hope…
Dec 13, 1953
I have examined the 'Action Program for Highway Safety' which you and the other Governors have developed in cooperation with interested organizations and public officials having jurisdiction over highway safety.
Dec 13, 1953
All I am trying to do is appeal to the common sense of America to do what is necessary, not to lose our freedoms, not to be a people that wall constantly in the shadow of fear.
Dec 13, 1953
At any rate, I am depending on your active cooperation and support to make this Conference most effective.
Dec 11, 1953
The practice of medicine has no national, racial or religious boundaries.
Dec 11, 1953
I am sure that every step that produces better solidarity in the Western Hemisphere is to the good of the United States of America.
Dec 7, 1953
We shall carry into these private or diplomatic talks a new conception.
Dec 7, 1953
Today, the United States' stockpile of atomic weapons... exceeds by many times the explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all of the years of World…
Dec 6, 1953
Our meetings have reinforced our solidarity, strengthened our resolve, and fortified our hopes.
Dec 6, 1953
Our three Governments will lose no opportunity for easing the tensions that beset the world and for reassuring all nations that they have no cause to fear that the strength of the West will be invoked in any cause of wrongful violence.
Dec 6, 1953
We cannot accept as justified or permanent the present division of Europe.
Dec 1, 1953
The best way to keep subversives out of the Government is not to employ them in the first place.
Dec 1, 1953
The easiest thing to do with great power is to abuse it--to use it to excess.
Dec 1, 1953
What America is doing abroad in the way of military and economic assistance is as much a part of our own security program as our military efforts at home.
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