...gone to indicate publicly Federal support of population control. President Eisenhower in 1959 said he could "not imagine anything more emphatically a...governmental activity or function or responsibility." He was commenting on a report of the President's Committee To Study the US Military Assistance Program....

...birth control available to these countries if they so requested. In reply, the President said: I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity, or function, or responsibility. That is not our business. At first, President Kennedy took a similar stand; but later (April 1963)...

...national understanding of the seriousness of the situation. In 1959, President Eisenhower said, "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that Is not a proper political or governmental activity . . . this government will not ... as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its...

...involvement in the birth control problem of this or other countries when he said in December 1959, I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity or function or responsibility . . . this government has not, and will not make, as far as I, as long as I am here, have a positive...

...information on request to other countries. In December 1959, however, President Eisenhower said, "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political governmental action or function or responsibility . . . we do not intend to interfere with the internal...

...Eisenhower was asked in 1959 about the federal government's relation to birth control, he replied: "I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity or function or responsibility. . . . That's not our business." 3 Four years later, however, President John F. Kennedy hesitantly voiced...

...people would have conceded the political wisdom of President Dwight Eisenhower's statement in 1959 that he "could not imagine anything more emphatically...governmental activity or function or responsibility" than family planning. (While ex-President, Eisenhower changed his views somewhat.) Not only did this...

...press conference, tried with considerable firmness to push the issue back into the shadows: I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity or function or responsibility. . . . This government will not, as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its program...

...l959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared that "birth control ... is not our business. I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity or function or responsibility." Ten years later, in Jury l969, President Richard Nixon issued the first presidential message on population....

...very notion that the federal government has a role to play in the matter of birth control: I cannot imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...governmental activity or function or responsibility. . . . This government will not, as long as I am here, have a positive political doctrine in its program...