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EISENHOWER, Dwight. Typed speech draft, unsigned, "Report to the Nation, Final Draft, May 19, 1953." 13 pages, folio, SOME 150 CORRECTIONS IN EISENHOWER'S HAND, in pencil. Some corrections by a second hand in blue ink.
NATIONAL DEFENSE "CANNOT CONSIST OF SUDDEN, BLIND RESPONSES TO A SERIES OF FIRE-ALARM EMERGENCIES"
A revealing draft of an important address from early in Eisenhower's first term. He tries to steer the American public away from the mood of crisis and massive military spending of the final years of the Truman administration. Instead he argues for a patient policy of military strength and fiscal restraint. "By their military threat," he says, the Communist leaders "hoped to force upon America and the free world an unbearable security burden leading to economic disaster...Communist guns, in this sense, have been aiming at an economic target no less than a military target." To prevent this, Ike has to rein in some of his own generals, as he does in the heavily revised passages on page three. Some of the more panicky generals in the Pentagon had been bandying about the idea that 1954 was "the year of maximum danger," the point at which Soviet military and nuclear capabilities could put them in a position to threaten or even defeat the United States. Our defense strategy, Eisenhower says, "cannot consist of sudden, blind responses to a series of fire-alarm emergencies...It cannot be based solely on the theory that we can point to a D-day of desperate danger somewhere in the future...The truth is," he continues, "we live in an age of peril." The U. S. must meet those perils with a strong military, but without harming the nation's economy or dangerously expanding the powers of the government. America, he says, must not "devote our whole nation to the grim purposes of the garrison state."
He mocks the ideas that specific levels of armament production would "guarantee security." Only Ike could speak about the need to eliminate "useless expenditure and duplication" in the military budget, and yet not expose himself to charges of being "soft" on national defense. He alone among national politicians could stand up to what he calls here the "special pleaders, both in and out of the military services....I have given to this phase of our national planning careful, personal study and analysis. I have, as you know, lived with it for many years." These ideas drove Ike's "New Look" defense strategy, which saw increases in spending on nuclear weapons, air power and covert intelligence activities, in place of committing conventional ground and sea forces to costly wars such as Korea. Provenance: Eisenhower speechwriter Emmet Hughes, by sale to John Fleming, by sale to Malcolm Forbes.
NATIONAL DEFENSE "CANNOT CONSIST OF SUDDEN, BLIND RESPONSES TO A SERIES OF FIRE-ALARM EMERGENCIES"
A revealing draft of an important address from early in Eisenhower's first term. He tries to steer the American public away from the mood of crisis and massive military spending of the final years of the Truman administration. Instead he argues for a patient policy of military strength and fiscal restraint. "By their military threat," he says, the Communist leaders "hoped to force upon America and the free world an unbearable security burden leading to economic disaster...Communist guns, in this sense, have been aiming at an economic target no less than a military target." To prevent this, Ike has to rein in some of his own generals, as he does in the heavily revised passages on page three. Some of the more panicky generals in the Pentagon had been bandying about the idea that 1954 was "the year of maximum danger," the point at which Soviet military and nuclear capabilities could put them in a position to threaten or even defeat the United States. Our defense strategy, Eisenhower says, "cannot consist of sudden, blind responses to a series of fire-alarm emergencies...It cannot be based solely on the theory that we can point to a D-day of desperate danger somewhere in the future...The truth is," he continues, "we live in an age of peril." The U. S. must meet those perils with a strong military, but without harming the nation's economy or dangerously expanding the powers of the government. America, he says, must not "devote our whole nation to the grim purposes of the garrison state."
He mocks the ideas that specific levels of armament production would "guarantee security." Only Ike could speak about the need to eliminate "useless expenditure and duplication" in the military budget, and yet not expose himself to charges of being "soft" on national defense. He alone among national politicians could stand up to what he calls here the "special pleaders, both in and out of the military services....I have given to this phase of our national planning careful, personal study and analysis. I have, as you know, lived with it for many years." These ideas drove Ike's "New Look" defense strategy, which saw increases in spending on nuclear weapons, air power and covert intelligence activities, in place of committing conventional ground and sea forces to costly wars such as Korea. Provenance: Eisenhower speechwriter Emmet Hughes, by sale to John Fleming, by sale to Malcolm Forbes.