In his 1953 "Domino" speech, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower discusses national security

SOT Pres. Dwight Eisenhower, in speech at the Governors Conference: " ... when the United States votes $400 million to help that war, we are not voting for a giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest way that we can to prevent the occurrence of something that would be of the most terrible significance for the United States of America - our security, our power and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of the Indonesian territory, and from southeast Asia ... The security of the United States is not just the business of the Secretary of Defense and the Congress and the President and the Secretaries of the Services. It is the business of every man, woman and child" "I don't give a hoot whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, in this kind of job you are Americans. In the Federal Government we are Americans. Unless we can cooperate on the basis of understanding of the facts, and progress steadily, surely, and confidently in carrying out a program that we believe will establish the security of the United States, not only from a gun, from a bomb, from some kind of destructive act of an enemy ... unless we have that kind of economic strength, we are going to have to live a very different kind of life than we do ... "; "All of us protest our readiness to cooperate. As I see it, one of the basic purposes of such conferences as these ought to be to pinpoint the ways we will get together and to work together ... " (applause)