Letter from Gabriel Hauge to President Dwight D. Eisenhower

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 7, 1958. Dear Mr. President: As you will recall, in May I took up with you the personal reasons prompting my desire to return to private life. In the light of that and subsequent conversations, I now wish to sub= mit my resignation as Special Assistant to the President ef- fective, if it meets your convenience, sometime early in the F D. autumn. I have had happier tasks than to write this letter and to take the decision which requires it. These years in your service have been the most satisfying of my life. To the area of economic policy, where I have been privileged to work, you have brought a badly needed re=emphasis of some plain but oft obscured truths. You have been concerned not only with remedying what is wrong in our economy but with invigorating what is right. You have restated the traditional American be- lief in incentive and reward for individual effort and excellence. You have reaffirmed the dignity of hard work and the need to be as concerned with earning one's pay as with receiving it. You have stressed integrity of the currency as essential both to healthy economic growth and to sturdy national character. You have reasserted America1s vital interest in strengthening rather than weakening economic ties with other free nations. You have charted a true course amidst changing economic conditions and remembered the rightful claims of tomorrow in the policy deci- sions of today. You have shown how a firm floor over the pit of personal disaster can be built without disregard for our heritage of selfwreliance. You have reminded us that only sensible economics, not razzle=dazzle substitutes, can truly serve the ends of equity and social justice. You have steadfastly refused to immerse the ever present problem of making a living in a