Address at Yellowstone National Park, September 11, 1953 [02]

2 20, S f I TO AM INDEBTED TO . WHICH WE ARE ALL CONGRESSIONAL SO VITALLY . LAST FALL AND TO ARE ABOUT CONCERNED 154 COME '10 A SUBJECT IN THE - 1-1-;, ... jt/ /1 IN YOU J THIS OPPORTUNITY FOR ELECTIONS OF REPUBLICANS 2 TALK WITH YOU 0 P YOU '3>, - MADE BE HIGHLY A SHOWING FINE COMMENDED FOR EISENHOWERo HOWEVER, THAN OF A YEAR 19520 EFFORT YEARo WE ALTHOUGH ·AWAY, MUST WHICH WE BE WE THE 1954 CANNOT REST ON THE THINKING IN WILL ARE ELECTIONS BE CALLED MORE LAURELS TERMS OF THE UPON TO MAKE GREATER NEXT - AS NOW, YOU 210 DEMOCRATS GIVING US THE CONTROL ALL OF ELECTORATE THE A GIVE STUDY OF US AN A BY HAS '17 48' THE MADE SMALL UP THE IN OF 220 AND 4 BALANCEo REPUBLICANS, VACANCIES$ MARGINo REPUBLICANS, MEMBERS NEXT LAST IS HANGS INDEPENDENT, ONE r SENATE SINCE HOUSE THE - CONGRESS THE CONTROL OF 2 OF 47 THE DEMOCRATS AND HOUSE MUST FACE YEAR, FALL1S ELECTION RESULTS INDICATION OF WHAT TO EXPECT IN WILL 19540 - PRESIDENT THAN SIX AND CAST FOR PLURALITY THIS THE IN 1954. A HOUSE THE MILLION. HALF THOSE IISTRICTS NO VOTES REPRESENTING A EXCLUDES WHERE EITHER OPPOSITION. FIGURE THE BETWEEN EISENHOWER'S CHALLENGE THIS FOR AND PRESIDENT OF MILLION, THE OF ALL THREE DIFFERENCE SIGNIFICANT I CANDIDATES 27 MORE PLURALITY WAS MILLION. HALF THAN - ALMOST OF OFFERED THE AND ONE MORE FIGURE PARTY EISENHOWER'S REPUBLICAN TOTALLED 3 BECAUSE PLURALITY IN FACING .JTHE CHALLENGE MUST BE IT CANDIDATES' HOUSE LIES IS THE REPUBLICAN MET ON TWO A SUBSTANCE PARTY FRONTS., - FIRST THE IN PER AS 85 THOSE THE AND CAST SOLID SOUTH SECOND, 5 BY LOST WON OR VOTES OFFER MUST WE DEMOCRATS, THE WHICH WE DISTRICTS CENT OR LESS OF - SOUTH WHERE SOLID CANDIDATES TO OPPOSE IN 4 REFERRED - TO MARGINAL DISTRICTSo SITUATION IN THE WE FOR EXAMPLE, STATES ONE BE GINNING ARE IN FROM BUT, PART OF THE WE DESPITE THE ENTRENCHED NOW FOUR HOLD SOUTH - PROMISING IS HEADWAY HOUSE THREE THERE. SEATS FROM - FROM VIRGINIA, AND CAROLINAo OUR LONG COUNTRY, THERE. JEOPARDY IN 1954. REAL MAKE TO SOLID NORTH THE WE FORWARD STRIDES ARE THOSE FAR FOUR FROM IN THAT FIRMLY SEATS WILL BE IN 6 - HAT 0 FIGHT WE NOW IDILS THIS HOLD LD H TO IS NINE OF THE HAVE EIGHT EISEN / 269 WAS HARD D CAPTURING F CRATS. OWER'S PLURALITY THOUSAND VOTES CONGRESSIONAL ILL PLURALITY MARGINAL DEM" BY A FACE WE CHANCE GOOD A HELD SIDENT TOTAL THAT DOWN ONTO AND - - IN THE CANDIDATES ABOUT 1 THE 1954 IS A PART THE CHALLENGE REAL ONE REPUBLICAN TO / PENNSYLVANIA. AN TWO IN ANALYSIS IMPORTANT LAYING OUR OF LAST FACTORS PLANS FOR FALL'S WHICH NEXT RETURNS WE MUST YEARo POINTS UP CONSIDER - THE ONE, - PRESIDENT EISENHOWER THAT FACT 7 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. OUTDISTANCED MOST OF THE FOR RUNNING THE PRESIDENTS TREMENDOUS SHOWING IN INDUSTRIAL CENTERS, PENETRATE THE CITIES CANDIDATES ARE THESE WHETHER WANTED A CONGRESS TWO THEY THE PEOPLE LIVE CHANGE IN AND, OUR THAT BY BEEN ABLE TO CONGRESSIONAL INDICATE THAT THE PEOPLE THE THE REPRESENTED CONTROLLED HE INSOFAR AS FACTORS THEREFORE, YET NOT LARGE THE CONCERNEDo CHANGE - HAVE WE DESPITE TW01 AND SENATE AND HOUSE THE BI,G THE A CITIES IN PRESIDENCY CHANGE TASK IN TO 1954 IS THEY SO HE IS RURAL - NOT AREAS - THE THEMo PRESIDENT NEEDS HIS OWN PARTY IF WHICH OR - TO A TO CONVINCE CONGRESS BRING ABOUT ARDENTLY DEMANDED IN 1952(1 8 - UNLESS WE SIMPLE FACT, THINGS THEY UNDERSTAND AS A FOR ASKED MUST WE THAT AN TO IMPORTANT PEOPLE THIS UNDERSTAND THAT ONE IN DANGER BE THEY WILL MOREOVER1 FUTURE THE MAKE - LOSING OF FALLo LAST ALSO MAKE VOTERS THE OFF-YEAR ELECTION IS AS COUNTRY'S PRESIDENTIAL AND FUTURE THEIR CONTESTo ON OF IS SUPPORTING ALL BRING TOO IT THE OLID PRESIDENT'S APPARENT, TO THE HOWEVER, ATTENTION OF POLICIESo AND THE IT IS A SHOW THEIR OUR DESIGN JOB TO PEOPLEo DEMOCRATS KNOW THAT THEIR POLICIES WERE REPUDIATED ENOUGH THE THE TO BY THE REALIZE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE THAT THE LAST FALL PRESIDENT PEOPLEo AND ARE CLEVER EISENHOWER HAS THE 9 - BY SUPPORTING SOME TO BE ABLE TO REPUBLICAN IF AS A PARTY'S ACHIEVEMENTS AND OF THE CONGRESSo THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL CONTROL FORMIDABLE PROGRAM DEPOPULARIZE IN MADE HIM CONNECTION INDUSTRIAL THERE LEADERSHIP UNDER EISENHOWER'S 1954 OUR THE A TO WIN ACT WILL CANDIDATE BE RECORD OF PROPAGANDA THE 19560 THE GAINS WE EISENHOWER'S INCREASED - THAT, IN TO IN PRESIDENCY SITUATION BELIEVE CANDIDATES WILL OF THEY - AN ATTEMPT IN THE WIN WITH I 1956 LEADERSHIP UNNING ON THE INSTEAD AND AND CENTERS? WILL THUS OBSTRUCrlON TO THE PRESIDENT'S 1955 DURING THIS IN THE GLORY OF REFLECTED THE HOPE THEY NOW, HIS POLICIES OF BASK IN - UNDER THAT HAVE THE IS TO PRESIDENT SAY THAT IN THE ADVANTAGE NEW ADMINISTRATION BARRAGE OF 20 YEARS OF STANDING. • 10 - IN MOREOVER THE SUPPORT OF THE I WOMEN WILL HAVE ALSO INDUSTRIAL CENTERSo THE IN Fll\.CTOR THIS LANDSLIDE. WE BELIEVE ADECISIVE WOMEN WERE REPUBLICAN 1954, - ROLLING UP IN STATEMENT IS THE BORNE OUT , BY THE TREMENDOUS GAIN IN REPUBLICAN REGISTRATION VOTES AND IN THE LARGE CITIES TRADITIONALLY DEMOCRATIC WHICH THE DEMOCRATS IT WAS THIS PLUS THE THAT DEALT IF WHICH WE GAIN THE HOLD REPUBLICAN AND IN HEA VILY CITIE S STRENGTH DEMOCRATS THE CONVENES THE CITIES WHICH ARE STRONGHOLDS AND UPON COUNTED IN REPUBLICAN - IN THEIR WOMEN?S VOTE JANUARY 1955 0 AND URBAN AREAS THE RURAL AREAS CRUSHING DEFEAT. IN WILL 1954, BE PRESIDENT EISENHOWER THE OVERWHELMINGLY WI.LL - "'0 PUT ACROSS THE BALANCE OF HIS CONGRESS PROGRAMo BE ABLE - WE 11 - IN PERHAPS HIT A PEAK IN WOMEN INTEREST POLITICS IN 19520 ACTIVITY WAS DUE THEIR DESIRE THEIR THIS IS MORE AND HIGH THERE 31 ALSO MEASURE TO THE THE BY WOMEN INTEREST DEMONSTRATED ARE AND WAS LARGE RESULT IN THE OF A AFFAIRS GOVERNMENTo THERE IN IT CHANGE. GROWING CONSTANT OF A FOR IN ELECTIVE ARE THE TOP THE FACT SERVING IN STATE 286 WOMEN WOMEN IN THROUGHOUT WOMEN BY COUNTRYo STATE IN ELECTIVE TODAY, LEGISLATURES OFFICES THAN SERVING LEVEL THAT EVER STATE POSTS BEFOREo LEGISLATURES _}2 NOW WOMEN ARE STATE THE IN SERVING IN LEGISLATURES IN EVERY AND, FOURo EXCEPT T HEM MAJORITY OF _ ARE I HAPPY TO AM REPUBLICANS - SAY 197 THAT OF THEM, FACTo PENNSYLV MOREOVER, OF THE ACTIVE IT REPORTED IS COUNTRY THAT IN A POLITICAL EVEN THOSE PARTY ARE INTEREST IN THE WORKINGS OF IS THE BORNE OUT BY FROM VARIOUS WOMEN WHO ARE NOT TAKING A GREATER THEIR LEGISLATURESo THIS INCREASING NUMBER OF WOMEN WHO ARE APPEARING BEFORE LE'GISLATIVE THE STATE LEVELo PARTS COMMITTEES AT - AS STATE THESE ITS BECOME WOMEN POLITICS TO - ACQUAINTED THEY WILL GOVERNMENTS1 ATTENTION 13 AND THEIR WITH NATURALLY 'WRN THEIR IN PARTICIPANTS BECOME ACTIVITIESo THIS WHICH RESULT SHOULD WILL SERVE AS A ALERT ORE IN ELECTORATE BULWARK AGAINST STRONG .._ THOSE AMONG AN ALERT GU ARANTE E WHO US AND HAVE AGGRESSIVE AGAINST ON DESIGNS OUR WAY ELECTORATE DIC TATORSHIP NO IS OF THE MATTER LIFEo BEST WHAT ITS STRIPEo THE GROWING GOVERNMENTS MOMENT OF THE IN IMPORTANT IS THE INTEREST BY WOMEN AT DEVELOPMENT POLICIES BEING THIS OF PURSUED THEIR STATE PARTICULAR THIS BY IN COUNTRY THE BECAUSE NEW ADMINISTRATION - MORE AND THE MORE, MAKE TO KEEP A IT EARLIER STATE THEY EYE SHARPER A FOR ON DEFENSE, US . IN WASHINGTON PLANS OF FOREIGN THE EVERY ALMOST FROM GO VERNORS THE OF GOVERNMENTSo STATE 14uW' ALL FOR IMPORTANT ON OUR firlH, THIS NEW POLICIESo CONFERENCE BRIEFED GOVERNMENT IMPORTANT o;E TIffS ATTENDED WERE tit ASSUME NEW WILL STATES MORE THE ALL - THESE RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER WILL 14 AT WHICH FEDERAL AID AND OTHER FIELDSo .TALKING TO THE GOVERNORS, PRESIDENT EISENHOWER SAID: ttTHE BUSINESS THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN OF PEACE WAR AND RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AFFAIRS ARE, AND UNDER FEDERAL THE OUR CONSTITUTION 1 GOVERNMENTe 15 - BUT, IN INVOLVES TOWNS ON FARMS THE HE CONTINUED, ALL ,JUDGMENTo THE IN WHITE WASHINGTON "IT AND COMES DEVOTED WHETHER IN IN PRIVATE POLITICAL HOUSE, NOR IN THE GOVERNMENTS MATTER OF THE "IS TO OUR CITIES AND IS IMMENSE RESPONSIBILITY", COUNSEL WISDOM DOES THE COUNTRY THE STATESo MATTER OF THE BEYOND DANGER OUR IN LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY OF "QUITE THE POPULATIONS IN CIVILIAN THE AND OURS LIKE TIMES - AND NOT EXECUTIVE RESIDE BRANCHt IN NOR ITSELFo FROM THE MINDS HHJ4l' MEN WHEREVER FEDERAL LIFE " . .t STATE AND HEARTS OF SINCERE THEIR AND FIELD LOCAL OF ACTION _ GOVERNMENT OR 16 - TOWARD THE APPROACH WAS IMPLICIT IN REACTION THIS THE A THERE THIS BEEN A RECOGNITION OF KIND" TO TENDENCY THE STATES THIS WHICH ONLY IN THE CONFERENCE FOR HAS ONE COME OF TO BUT RELATIONSo TO GIVE WELCOME THIS AMERICAo PART OF OF WE TIME SAID, GOVERNING ROLE OF WASHINGTONc. METHOD GOVERNOR SOME AND IMPORTANT WAS THE FEDERAL-STATE AFFAIRS OF THE GOVERNORSo THE STATES A SECONDARY ROLE THE OF OF FROM ONE NEW ATMOSPHERE HAS GOVERNMENTS WHICH STATE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT BROUGHT "CONFERENCES OF LEND - THE THIS GREAT CHANGE A DIFFERENT CHANGE IS NOT PHILOSOPHY GOVERNMENTo nr s DESIGN IISENHOWER LAST IN JANUARYo WAS FIRST MADE HIS AT STATE OF THAT CLEAR THE TIME HE BY PRESIDENT UNION MESSAGE SAID: - THOSE ENCOURAGEMENT OF CREATIVE INITIATIVE CORNERSTONE EVERY HAVE THIS TO MEET THE TAKEN IN AFFAIRSo FREEDOM EVERYWHEREo FOR T HEY ARE TEST OF tt THE OF OURSo THIS ADMINISTRATION WILL WHETHER IT WILL INSPIRE INITIATIVEo PATTERN ACTIONS TRUE THE INVOLVE ITS THAT NEW ADMINISTRATION BY WILL THAT INSPIRE ECONOMY SO WORDS, POLICY ADOPTED CREATIVE IS OF LEADERSHIP INCENTIVES OUR IN THOSE REMEMBER OUR FORTIFY MAY PRODUCTIVITY - LABORS OF GRAND "THE 17 THE BY IS ALREADY EMERGING FROM THE THE ADMINISTRATION SO FARo HANDLING OF OUR DOMESTIC AND T.lIIS FOREIGN - DOMESTICALLY, DEPARTMENT IS PRESIDED OVER ACCLAIMED AS ONE MANY OF NEED WE I IN WHICH 18 LOOK ONLY AS SERVE, GEORGE BY - BY BOTH FRIEND THE MOST ABLE THE FAR AS TREASURY HUMPHREY WHO 1S AND FOE (F THE MEN WASHINGTON THE WHICH BEING ADMINISTRATION HAS SEEN IN YEARS. STROKE -lslT"IIHTH AT AN INTEREST THE RATE ADMINIS OF 3 TION 1/4 A PRINTING RUNNING TO THE DETRIMENT OF OUR DOLL - IN ADDITION1 ORDERED TO CUT ALL 19' - DEPARTMENTS THEIR BUDGETSo FROM LIPS, IS A ONE-HALF CUT IN THE 1954 REDUCTION WAS MADE IN PRESIDENT TRUMAN SAID ANYONE TRY TO THE THE RESULT BUDGET OF THIS AS WERE YOU PRESIDENT'S OWN THE FISCAL BILLION DOLLARSo AND AGENCIES EIGHT AND FORMIDABLE BUDGET WHICH COULD NOT BE CUT FORMER AND DARED ITo SIGNIFICANCE OF THE / DEMONSTRATES THE REAL TROY US BY TO THE ERA OF MAKE DECISIONS IN A GOVERNMENT BY CRISIS COMMUNIST ECONOMICALLY CRISIS. - "WE LIVE MUST 21 PLAN AND THINK AND THROUGH THIS AGE - PROVID E FREEDOM IN - WAYS IN NO! UNDERMINE OUR FREEDOM EVEN AS WE DEFEND IT. THAT REMARK IS TO ADHERE TO HE UNION MESSAGE SO AGAIN ELOQUENTLY TO IN DE NSTRATED THIS TURNED HIS INDIVIDUAL ST A TE OF THE RMINATION HIS ATTE TO LATER TAXES. SAID: HE ELIEVE TOO T HE LAST IN q,EAL STRIVE THE IN WHICH ARE THAT DO THE ENCOURAGING TAXES TO AS tt IN HE SO THAT HIGH. TO - FOR WE THE LONG TERM THINK THEY ARE INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE. tt - PR SENT 22 - DIFFERENCE TO WHICH EXISTS GOVERNMENT HIS OWNo COULD HELP THIS NOT OF USED ALL OF GOVERNMENT PRACTICE UPON THE TO EVERY GROUP CAUSE APPROACH PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND SAID HE FELLOW THAT GOVERNMENT BUT NEEDED THE CITIZENS WHO WANT YOUR LESS," HE SELF-RESTRAINT IN THE COMMON THE PEOPLEo SPEND GOVERNMENT. BETWEEN SPENDING ALONE THE "YOU AND YOUR TODAY WHEN CAME REDUCE BY - YOU, BY EXCEPT AS SAID, "MUST DEMANDS CITIZENS, YOURSELVES YOU MAKE CANNOT HELP MERELY FAVORING ECONOMY THE ONE TO WHICH YOU FOR BELONG t, 24 - TEAD, HE CHOSE - HARD THE ----- UT POLITICAL WA THE TAX RATES ALR7 SO AS TO PREVENT THE ./ WUND DOLLAR" Iii; APPROACH THIS COUNTRY TO THE PROBLEMS FACING DIFFICULT TO ECONOMIC TODAY IS ONE WHICH IS THE INVOLVES EXPERTS TECHNICALITIES ·WHICH ONLY TRULY PRESIDENT SHRILL UNDERSTAND" EISENHOWER CRISIS AND ONVICTION AND SAID IT "MAY EMERGENCY, REALISM. tt IS A NOT BUT PEOPLE AFEW COURSE FOR IT FINANCIAL WHICH SCREAM WITH SPEAKS WITH 25 - STATESMANSHIP IN HIS THE IN HIS TO FOREIGN AFFAIRSo SOCIETY OF THE EDITORS:.a:-¥-9 _ THE PEOPLES OF FOR GREAT TALENT HANDLING OF MOVING ADDRESS NEWSPAPER TO HIS HAS DEMONSTRATED HE - WORLD, - HE SPOKE E T "----' A DEEP PEOPLE. IN ABIDING AND HE SPOKE TERMS ALL HE AND HEAT AND THEY ARE TO COULD TALKED BRIDGES FAITH - CORN. THE THEM T HE IN INTELLIGENCE HUMANITARIAN OF TERMS THE - UNDERSTAND. ABOUT WOOL IN SCHOOLS AND AND THESE THINGS COTTON THINGS, - HOSPITALS MEAT AND PEOPLE WHICH INSPIRE - ROADS MILK _ UNDERSTANDo MEN'S MINDSo 27 - MOST HAVE MAY YOU NOTICED - THAT ADMINISTRATION'S OF ACTIONS EXISTING THIS TO THE IS IN / WASHINGTON PEOPLE AS OF INDIVIDUALS NATION LIES ITIATIVE IN AND LAWS THROUGH LEADERSHIP TODAY TO DO MADE PROMISE DURING T PEOPLE KIND BEEN LA WSo PRESIDENT'S L ERCIVE THE HAVE IS THINGS OR THE AS THE WHICH WHICH KIND IS WHICH FOR OUR ENCOURAGEMENT COMPETITIVE CONTROL COMING OUT OF ENCOURAGES FOR ,THEMSELVES GROUPS TO ACTING EITHER STRENGTH AS A OF INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE. 28 - AT BUT, STAND IDLY SAME THE BY - THIS TIMEt "TWIRLING ITS GOVERNMENT WILL NOT THUMBS", AS COMMERCE SECRETARY WEEKS SAID SOMETHING IS THE GOING TO GO WRONGo PEOPLE LEFT AS - FREE GOVERNMENT MEDDLING AND AS POSSIBLE CONTROL, FROM AND LED BY AN ADMINISTRATION WHICH DOES NOT OPERATE ON THE BASIS OF SHRILL BASIS OF FIRM AND PROGRAMS THAT FOR IS CRIES OF ALARM AND CRISIS THEIR OWN THE REAL ADMINISTRATION'S BE CONSISTENT POLICIES - BUT CAN ON THE DEVELOP FUTURE. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEW POLICIES AND '!HAT IS WHAT YOU WILL OFFERING THE ELECTORATE IN 1954 WHEN YOU JOIN IN THE CRUSADE FOR THE EISENHOWER PHILOSOPHY WHICH IS )HE PLATFORM ON WH1:C WILL H YOUR CONGRESSIONAL RUNo THANK YOUe CANDIDATES