But I do
want to thank you wholeheartedly for the generous compliment you
have paid me by even suggesting you would personally like for me
to run. . . Please remember me most kindly to all our good
friends.
Sincerely,
FOR BALANCE, LET CANADA GO IT ALONE
Response to a questionnaire from Congresswoman Cecil M. Harden,
March 4, 1954
Memo relating to Question No. 6.
I, a Democrat, along with thousands of others, not only voted for
Gen. Eisenhower, but were glad to do so. . . No minor reason for
doing so was that he promised to balance the budget--and soon. .
. But the politicians have gotten in their work and he is
wobbling just a trifle. . . At a very recent press conference, if
he is quoted correctly, he said that if employment did not pick
up in March, that fact would necessitate taking action, and tax
reduction might be one of the first measures to be considered,
and that the government wouldn't hesitate a second to do its
utmost to stop any real recession. To me that is Roosevelt
philosophy, pure and simple, which threw undue stress on consumer
spending, and assumed the way to avert depression was to
unbalance the budget, resort to pump priming, which can mean only
one thing--more inflation.
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