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"All too liberal. I can't for the life of me understand what persuaded Dwight to go for that big budget this year. All his campaign speeches and promises were for decreased Government spending. I'd sure like to discover what influence is at work on my brother." --Edgar Eisenhower, TIME 1957
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity...The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded" - Ike in his farewell address
Before becoming President, Eisenhower had said that all who advocate federal aid to education are guilty of extravagance with public money, of dishonesty, and of behavior "more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us ." After becoming President, Eisenhower urged Congress to pass the National Defense Education Act as an "emergency program . . . . in the essential interest of national security." Congress passed the Act in 1958, the first really comprehensive federal-aid-to-education law.
"Constant and unnecessary governmental meddling in our economy leads to a standardized, weakened, and tasteless society that encourages dull mediocrity; whereas private enterprise, dependent upon the vigor of healthful competition, leads to individual responsibility, pride of accomplishment, and, above all, national strength."
"If we allow this constant drift toward central government to continue, ownership of property will gradually drift into that central government; and, finally, we shall have to have dictatorship as the only means of operation" - Eisenhower
From 1960
"All too liberal. I can't for the life of me understand what persuaded Dwight to go for that big budget this year. All his campaign speeches and promises were for decreased Government spending. I'd sure like to discover what influence is at work on my brother." --Edgar Eisenhower, TIME 1957
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity...The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded" - Ike in his farewell address
Before becoming President, Eisenhower had said that all who advocate federal aid to education are guilty of extravagance with public money, of dishonesty, and of behavior "more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us ." After becoming President, Eisenhower urged Congress to pass the National Defense Education Act as an "emergency program . . . . in the essential interest of national security." Congress passed the Act in 1958, the first really comprehensive federal-aid-to-education law.
"Constant and unnecessary governmental meddling in our economy leads to a standardized, weakened, and tasteless society that encourages dull mediocrity; whereas private enterprise, dependent upon the vigor of healthful competition, leads to individual responsibility, pride of accomplishment, and, above all, national strength."
"If we allow this constant drift toward central government to continue, ownership of property will gradually drift into that central government; and, finally, we shall have to have dictatorship as the only means of operation" - Eisenhower
From 1960
