...knowledge of birth control available to these countries if they so requested. In reply, the President said: I cannot imagine anything more emphatically...not a proper political, or governmental activity, or function, or responsibility. That is not our business. At first, President Kennedy took a similar...

...indicate publicly Federal support of population control. President Eisenhower in 1959 said he could "not imagine anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility." He was commenting on a report of the President's Committee To Study...

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

...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...is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility . . . this government has not, and will not make, as far as I, as long...

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

...foreign aid policy, had recommended the inclusion of birth control aid, he declared that he could not "imagine anything more emphatically a subject that...is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility." We do not intend [the President went on] to interfere with the internal...

...conceded the political wisdom of President Dwight Eisenhower's statement in 1959 that he "could not imagine anything more emphatically a subject that....is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility" than family planning. (While ex-President, Eisenhower changed his views...

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

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

...dismissed the 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...is not a proper political or governmental activity or function or responsibility. . . . This government will not, as long as I am here, have a positive...