721 Hon. Richard M. Simpson
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1958 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- HOUSE 721 / EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS words of my own State's motto--"Live free or Again, our President-one of the great Address by Sherman Adams die." That resolute attitude accords with military captains of all history. your traditions as well as mine. Now, here, I have a few parenthetical EXTENSION OF REMARKS So by our own restrained self-appraisal, we observations. OF can agree that grit, character, and strength Nowadays, back in Washington, hardly a characterize the people of our two States. day goes by but that some armchair strate HON. RICHARD M. SIMPSON Now I also must grudgingly concede that gist intones doom for America. Nor hardly OF PENNSYLVANIA these attributes are not ours alone. They a day goes by but that some poiltical sooth belong as well to others. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ' sayer first proclaims, then bemoans, Amer Now, these past 5 years I have come to ican weakness. Disaster is too mild a word Tuesday, January 21, 1958 know a remarkable man. The great qualities to describe our pitiful plight. I have mentioned, and many others, he pos _There is an interesting aspect to this. In Mr. SIMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. sesses to a superlative degree. Born a Texan, large measure this professional shuddering Speaker, under the leave to extend my he was raised a Kansan. An ardent adlnirer comes from those whose attitude about de remarks in the RECORD, I include the fol of Colorado and Georgia, for a short time a fense has been dictated by political expedi lowing statement and address: New Yorker, today he is a Pennsylvanian. ency. Representative RICHARD M. SIMPSON, chair And yet this man really belongs to every Now I realize that the predicament of our man of the Republican Congressional cam State and to all our people. Beyond that, he political opposition calls for sympathy. paign committee, today urged the Aqlerican is beloved throughout the world and is a They are driven unmerclfully to :find a polit people to read carefully the text of a speech symbol of hope to all mankind. Though not ical paste that wlll bind together their party by Sherman Adams, Assistant to the Presi from New Hampshire, nor from Minnesota, of the North and their party of the South dent, 1! they want to keep the record straight yet the grit, character and strength we prize to give them the appearance of having com on the difference between the Democrat and in the people of our States this man has mon goals. Republican Parties. aplenty-as much as anyone I expect ever to But, even so, they ought to know better The Pennsylvania Republican said that of know. than to keep on politicking with national all the "good speeches delivered at Republi You know this man in some respects almost defense. As a matter of fact, they ought as well as I do; as leader of our party, as can fund-raising dinners, the night of Jan to be caned strictly to account by the Amer uary 20, the speech of Mr. Adams is closest leader of our Nation and literally the leader ican people for using this subject as party to the hearts of Republicans. of the Free World-our great President, glue. "It was a :fighting Republican speech, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. A few thoughts about him I would llke to · I'll say simply this: We Republicans greet it set the record straight on just where the the opposition on this battlefield with as blame lies for the sorry mess this Nation share with you this evening. Because of recent miracles of science anci much anticipation as on any other they can was in when Republicans took over in 1953. conjure up. ..Mr. Adams cites chapter and verse where technology, we live in the most dangerous, yet most promising, period of all the ages. In such a contest, we have abundant am Democrats failed the Nation in building a munition. modern military defense. His proof is irref In such a period our President means more to all of us than perhaps we realize. We do not need to bring up the mmtary utable and should be required reading for catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scien the chairman of the Democrat National This question will help make my meaning clear. tific catastrophe of losing our atomic se Committ~e and his stable of political orators crets. in Congress and· eU;ewhere who have been so · What is it that we the people want most of glib of late in glossing over the facts of our all? Nor do we need to dwell on policies that security. Surely, foremost in all of us Is one deep led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the .. I commend Mr. Adams for his courage and yearning: above all else, we want a lasting plight of our defenses when the invasion intel11gence in helping the Republican Party peace. We want an end to the tensions, began, nor the handcuffs put upon our con set the record straight. I am sure the Amer suspicions and hatreds in the world. duct of that war. We need not even refer ican people will also.,. Coupled with this we want the arms race to the tragic loss of China, nor the sur stopped. We want to turn to the betterment render of positions of freedom throughout of all mankind the genius and vast wealth the world. TExT OF ADDRESS BY SHERMAN ADAMS, THE being consumed in ever greater amounts by We can also ignore at the moment the ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, DELIVERED AT devices of death and destruction. wasteful and crippling defense planning be THE MINNESOTA UNITED REPUBLICAN DINNER, This longing for peace relates directly to tween World War n and the following war LEAMINGTON HOTEL, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., President Eisenhower. they couldn't end. · MONDAY EvENING, JANUARY 20, 1958 For in matters ·or peace and war, no other Right now, checking back only: a year is Pellow -Republicans, before I say I am glad man in our time has the rich experience, the enough. to be here, I had better explain something. wise understanding that he has. Nor has Last year the President proposed $38~ _ For a New Hampshire man to develop a any other such confidence and respect of billion for defense. The opposition spon feeling of being at home, as far away as this, world leaders or his unshakable determina sored a $2.5 billion cut. Too much for the reminds me that we used to think of Minne tion to build an enduring peace. military they said. sota as a pretty wild and woolly country. So it is that no other man in our time is as Now off they richochet again. The Presi When I was a boy, the travel of an average likely as he is tO achieve a genuine peace. dent's defense budget this year is about American citizen was 300 miles a year. So, Nor is any other as likely to save humanity $39.5 billion. That's $3% billion more than setting out for Minnesota was a pretty fool from the holocaust of nuclear war. the opposition was willing to grant last hardy venture, and nobody ever expected to For such a leader to guide us and the Free year. Yet many of them are now whooping see the traveler again. It up for more. Their cry indicates a no Well, times have changed, and you In World in such a time, all of us should be profoundly thankful. more objective appraisal of our defense needs Minnesota and we of New England have come than their cry 9 months ago to slash satel to adopt a more neighborly point of view. And next to peace, what do we want the most? lite, research and development, missile, and Of course we in New England celebrated our other-defense programs . centennials long ago, before any of us were The answer, I believe, is strength. born. Although centennials with us are now We want military strength. We use it to As for missiles, sputniks, space control and celebrations of the Johnny-come-latelies, we keep peace while we build the peace. the like, I remind you of a significant fact: nevertheless wholeheartedly share your pride We want economic strength. We need it Not until 1952-the last year of the Dem in the achievement of the first 100 years to stay m111tarily strong. We need it to gen ocratic national administration-did our of your great State of Minnesota. erate new opportunity for those who come country start spending even as little as a The fact is, you Minnesotans are our kind after us. million dollars on long-range ballistic mis of people. We want spiritual and moral strength. siles. Today, 5 years later, we spend over As a onetime woodsman, I get a Paul This we need to maintain our will, our a thousand times as much. Complacency? Bunyan kind of zest when I recall from child self-reliance, · our confident enterprise on Maybe so--but whose? Penny-pinching in defense? Maybe-but whose? Failure to act hood that this region was covered with tower which econo~ic vigor and growth depend. ing timber and, in lumber production, led tn time to assure the Nation's sa.,ety? Per all but two States in the Union. I haps. But whose failure was it? So a woodsman from the other end of the Military strength: Who above all others in I have another fact or two.