President Eisenhower (Courtesy: Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (September 17, 1952)
I have no use for those — regardless of their political party — who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Today in America unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.
Speech to the American Federation of Labor, New York City, 9/17/52
Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library
Hero of World War II, President Dwight D. Eisenhower died of congestive heart failure in Washington, D.C. on March 28, 1969.
This obituary and appraisal appeared the following day in the New York Times.
