NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “as I hear my colleague from California recount honest policy differences, I am struck by the words of that great and…”

“as I hear my colleague from California recount honest policy differences, I am struck by the words of that great and good man, Dwight David Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe, and later the President of the United States who, Mr. Speaker, instructed all of us, all of us when we have a political dispute, to understand that those who might hold differing views honestly want what is best for the country. This is the distinction we draw tonight, Mr. Speaker. To those small-minded, sinister, purveyors of the perverse, we say tonight, Mr. Speaker, shame. Shame on you and your tactics. Shame on you and what you attempt to do. For in your attempt, you bankrupt any innovative policy of those who have chosen to stray from constitutional guidelines, those have chosen to stray from the conduct of simple human decency, and those who may have chosen to stray from the rule of law. That is the statement we make tonight, well aware that those small and sinister minds may work overtime with journalists of their choosing and publications of their philosophy to try and lower us to the muck and mire, and yet Ike's example is there for every American. To quote the former President and a member of the other body in bygone times, ``I am not going to climb into the gutter with that guy,'' said President Eisenhower. And those of us of both parties join in the example of Ike to say, no, it is not time to climb into the gutter.”