LETTER TO HONORABLE GABRIEL HAUGE FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 1, 1955
• Content Type: LETTER

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FOR RELEASE AT 12:00 NOON, E.:3. T., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1955
James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President
THE WHITE HOUSE
EXCERPT FROM ADDRESS OF THE
HONORABLE GABRIEL HAUGE,
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
BEFORE THE 1955 ANNUAL CONVEN-
TION OF THE INVESTMENT BANKERS
ASSOCIATION, HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA
12:00 NOON, E. S. T., NOVEMBER 28, 1955
During the war Dwight Eisenhower was known as The G.I.'s
General. After three years as the nation's Chief Executive he can fairly
be called The People's President.
The affection and regard in which he was held by wartime
G. I. 's and in which he is held today by his fellow-citizens reflect the
President's own deep and wide-ranging concern for their and their
families. His oft-declared guide to policy making as President is the
simple question: What is best for 166 million Americans? The general
welfare comes first. The general interest is paramount. Special inter-
ests and special pleading have found no welcome.
Thi3 plain truth dooms to failure the concerted effort now
being made by some to stigmatize the President's labors in behalf of
peace and prosperity and justice for all the American people, as a
conspiracy to serve unnamed "special interests." I, for one, am fully
prepared to leave the job of dealing with that sort of buncombe to the
intelligence of the straight-thinking families of America.
Consider, for example, the economic record of the Eisenhower
Administration in the nation's service -- in discharging its responsibilities
under the Constitution to "promote the general welfare. "
1. More Americans are at work today, producing more,
earning more, spending more, investing more and building more than ever
before in our history. General welfare or special interests?
2. Under the Eisenhower Administration working men and
women are enjoying the unprecedented combination of higher wages, lower
taxes and a stable cost of living -- all at the same time. General welfare
or special interests?
3. Under the Eisenhower Administration the millions upon
millions of Americans who have savings bank accounts, savings bonds,
building and loan shares, life insurance policies and pension rights are
no longer seeing the value of their savings shrivelled by inflation.
General welfare or special interests?
4. Under the Eisenhower Administration the existing shackles
of direct controls on wages and prices were promptly thrown off in order
to release the energies of American workers and businessmen so that they
might achieve their best record of production and earnings. General
welfare or special interests?
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5. Under the Eisenhower Administration the Employment Act
of 1946 has been a cardinal guide to policy making, with special emphasis
upon the injunction in the Act to promote maximum employment, production
and purchasing power ". . . in a manner calculated to foster and promote
free competitive enterprise . . . ". General welfare or special interests ?
6. Under the Eisenhower Administration the American people
have seen a restoration of fiscal integrity which this year promises a
balanced federal budget and a present end to the increase in the public
debt. General welfare or spe eial interests ?
7. Under the Eisenhower Administration the largest tax
reduction in our history was enacted and of its $7. 4 billion in benefits
nearly two out of every three dollars went directly to individuals. General
welfare or special interests?
8. Under the Eisenhower Administration Congress completed
in 1954 a monumental revision of our federal tax laws. The new statute
permits a forward step toward the Administration's goal of increasing
many fold the number of Americans owning shares in our growing business
enterprises by reducing the discriminatory double taxation of dividend
income. The new law also removes a major obstacle to further
modernization of our industrial plant and to the creation of more and better
jobs by permitting more realistic depreciation accounting for tax purposes.
Among other desirable reforms, the new law provides for increased
deductions for medical expenses, special tax relief for working mothers,
a materially improved tax status for retired people, and a more favorable
tax treatment of farm expenses for soil conservation purposes. General
welfare or special interests?
9. Under the Eisenhower Administration scandal and
corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue have been put to an end and
integrity has again been restored to the collection of federal taxes.
General welfare or special interests?
10. Under the Eisenhower Administration the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare was established to give these vital concerns
of our people permanent representation in the President's cabinet. General
welfare or special interests?
11. Under the Eisenhower Administration 10 million additional
Americans, including farmers and farm workers, have been brought into
the social security program and retirement benefits for all have been
increased. General welfare or special interests?
12. Under the Eisenhower Administration unemployment
insurance coverage has been extended to 4 million additional workers and,
as a result of the President's initiative, thirty-four states have already
,increased maximum weekly benefits. General welfare or special interests?
13. Under the Eisenhower Administration the minimum wage
was increased. General welfare or special interests?
14. Under the Eisenhower Administration Government has
maintained a high standard of fair play and honest impartiality in labor
disputes, a fact that has helped to make the last three years one of the
most remarkable periods of labor peace in our history. General welfare
or special interests?
15. Under the Eisenhower Administration a broad program
is for the first time being formulated to help any American community
blighted by chronic unemployment to help itself attain a better share of
the nation's good times. General welfare or special interests?
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16. Under the Eisenhower Administration forward-looking
programs have been presented to Congress, and will be presented again,
to help meet such pressing problems as the shortage of classrooms and
the high cost of medical care. General welfare or special interests?
17. Under the Eisenhower Administration the inherited
farm program, on the verge of total collapse from the weight of over
$7 billion of unmarketable surpluses which it helped generate, is being
vigorously and conscjentiously rebuilt. We cannot rely on the human
catastrophe of war or the natural catastrophe of drought to bail out the
nation's farm program. Moving from a war-expanded footing to a more
nearly peacetime basis has made some painful readjustments in
agriculture unavoidable. The transition will be speeded by full
operation of the Agricultural Act of 1954, by the surplus disposal
legislation passed by Congress, and by new measures to be proposed
in a special Presidential message early in January. The Administration
will unrelentingly pursue this task until production is again brought
into line with markets at prices that will reward the farmer fairly
for his work. General welfare or special interests?
18. Under the Eisenhower Administration a fifteen-point
Rural Development program has been launched to attack on an organized
basis for the first time the problem of helping our 1 1/2 million farm
families with incomes of less than $1, 000 a year to better their position.
General welfare or special interests?
19. Under the Eisenhower Administration the first
peacetime independent government agency was created by Congress
for the sole purpose of advising, assisting and protecting small
business enterprises. General welfare or special interests?
20. Under the Eisenhower Administration the Government
in 1953 sold the Inland Waterways Corporation. It thereby ended its
competition with American citizens in this respect, made specific
provision for continued service to them, and, in the process, obtained
a sale price big enough to recover the previous fourteen years of
operating losses that had been made up out of federal tax money.
Similarly, under special legislation enacted by the Congress in 1953,
the Administration has sold 25 Government-owned synthetic rubber
plants for $272 million, showing a profit to the Treasury over the
depreciated book value of the plants of $158 million. General welfare
or special interests?
21. Under the Eisenhower Administration a plan has
been advanced to equip this nation for the first time with a first rate
interstate highway system adequate to meet the needs of our millions of
car owners as well as the pressing requirements of defense and economic
development. General welfare or special interests?
22. Under the Eisenhower Administration local groups --
public and private -- have been encouraged to help supply the nation's
electric power needs which will at least double in the next decade.
In addition to being right in principle, this partnership approach is
common sense because the record shows that there simply are not
enough federal tax dollars forthcoming to finance regional federal
power monopolies and at the same time provide for all the pressing
national needs which can be paid for only out of the federal treasury.
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It makes sense, for example, that the citizens of Memphis do what they
now find they can do -- finance construction of a new steam power plant
of their own rather than have the TVA build a plant with money raised
from federal taxpayers all across the land. It makes sense, too, for
an investor-owned, tax-paying public utility company, on the basis
of a unanimous decision of the Federal Power Commission, to build
three dams on the Snake River in Idaho to develop eventually more
power than would be forthcoming from a single high dam at Hell's
Canyon which Congress has twice refused to authorize and which would
cost the nation's taxpayers at least $400 million. The Eisenhower
partnership policy thus means more power sooner, financed increasingly
through local public or private borrowing of the people's savings rather
than out of federal taxes. General welfare or_ special interests?
23. Under the Eisenhower Administration the genius and
drive of private enterprise have been brought in directly to hasten the
development of the peaceful uses of atomic energy in order more swiftly
and surely to make the atom a force for good for all the people. General
welfare or special interests?
24. Under the Eisenhower Administration Congress passed
the Submerged Lands Act which, when upheld by the United States Supreme
Court, resolved at last the "tidelands" issue. The result has been the
extension of America's oil frontier to the Continental Shelf, the creation
of thousands of jobs, and the generation of a rich flow of revenue to both
federal and state treasuries. General welfare or special interests?
25. Under the Eisenhower Administration enforcement of
the anti-trust laws is today both vigorous and fair-minded. In the year
ended September 30th last, the Justice Department started 52 anti-trust
actions, nearly half again as many as were started in the last comparable
period before the President took office. General welfare or special
interests?
This highlighting of its economic record shows that the
Eisenhower Administration is unswervingly dedicated to serving the
general welfare. It is giving the American people government with
both a heart and a head.. It is an Administration whose leader's iron
refusal to play politics with the people's prosperity has truly brought
to our land a New Era of Good Feeling.
President Eisenhower has denounced no group in our society
as greedy, as sinister or as a "special interest" bent solely on its own
ends at the expense of others. Nor has he favored any group. He has
constantly urged the cooperation of all to the end of national well being.
The economic consequences of creating this new national atmosphere
have been enormous for good for all our people. The high standard of
conduct which the President has set is a marker against which to measure
discussion of public issues. We would all do well to follow his example.
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