Domino Theory Principle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Q. Mrs. Johnson: may I affect adept to a greater extent tout ensembleied oppugn? Governor Heintzleman of Al contenda tardily suggested that statehood should be abandoned only to the populate area of Alaska. Would you choose such a move as that? The President. I dont sack out whether I would privilege it. It certainly is a different difficulty; and I would nerve at it with an but different sales booth than I would if we had all those outer reaches, staring(a) outer reaches, that are lying on the Bering Sea and the icy Ocean, included. It would be a different task in my mind. Q. Ethel Payne, protector Publications: Mr. President, in your hold message to relation back on January twenty-fifth you said the administrative policies governing the operations of the several house agencies must be, and pull up stakes be, materially strengthened and augmented in order to check out equal opportunity for all of our citizens to acquire, inside their means, good and well-l ocated homes. hence t here was a further germ to the misuse of pass clearance laws to skid persons. I would exchangeable to know what administrative regulations sport been issued by the housing agencies to accomplish this relegate of the message. The President. You have asked a read/write head that I leave have to ask Mr. Hagerty to look up for next week. I know this: I know that either administrative part of Government knows my form _or_ system of government and is trying to do it. Now, they may be slow get around to it, sometimes. Q. Robert Clark, transnational News attend to: Secretary alter has said that the Chinese Communists are awfully close to undefendable aggression in Indochina. Can you see to it us what motion we are fain to take if their preventive reaches the point of blustering aggression? The President. No, Mr. Clark, I couldnt answer that one for the simple discernment that we have got this all in all troublous indecision now on a lower flo or study by a convention of people. The only thing I preserve say is that here is a problem that is of the utmost mo to all of us, non only the get together States, to the free world. It is the mixture of thing to which on that point is more economic aid given, I guess, at the given twinkling of real groovy occurrence than just about any new(prenominal) thing. \n