PM Transcripts

FOR PRESS PM. No. 33/ 1969
PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGLES ON THE DEATH OF
GENERAL EISENHOWER,
The Prime Minister, N'fr ( aorton, this morning sent
the following messages-
To Mrs Eisenhower " WE DEEPLY REGRET AND HAVE BEEN SADDENED
BY THE NEWS OF YOUR HUSBAND'S DEATH. GENERAL
EISENHOWER IN HIS LIFETIME RECEIVED THE RESPECT
AND ADMIRATION OF ALL AUSTRALIANS, AS THE WAR-TIME
LEADER OF OUR ALLIED FORCES AND, LATER, AS THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. HIS, GREAT
ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIS DEDICATED SERVICE TO HIS
COUNTRYMEN AND TO THE WORLD ARE MARKED IN OUR
HISTORY AND WILL REMAIN LONG IN OUR MEMORY.
ON BEHALF OF THE AUSTRALIAN * GOVERNMENT
AND THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE, I EXTEND TO YOU AND
YOUR FAMILY OUR DEEP SYMT\ PATHY.
To President Nixon "? TODAY ALL AUSTRALiANS ARE SHARING WITH
YOU AND WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A DEEP SENSE OF
GRIEF AT THE DEATH OF GENERAL EISENHOWER,
WE MOURN HIM AS A LEADER OF MEN WHO
SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS PRESIDENT WITH DEVOTION AND
HONOUR. WE MOURN HIM AS A LEADER IN THE FIGHT FOR
THE FREEDOM OF NATIONS. HE LED THE CRUSADE IN
EUROPE AND BORE THE AWESOME BURDEN OF SUPREME
COMMANDER IN WORLD WAR HI WITH COURAGE, SKILL AND
THE HIGHEST QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP. HE ACCOMPLISHED
A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND
HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE WORLD.
HE RESPONDED TO HIS COUNTRY'S SUMMONS TO
THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND WHE? 4 OTHER MEN MIGHT
HAVE SAID ' I HAVE DONE ENOUGH'. AND AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES, HE LED THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE
FREE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD AT A CRUCIAL TIME IN WORLD
HISTORY. AFTERWARDS HE CONTINUED TO DEVOTE HIS
GREAT HUMAN RESOURCES TO THE ISSUES OF HIS TIME.
AUSTRALIANS, AS DO PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD, SALUTE HIS ACHIEVEMENTS AND MOURN HIS PASSING." i
CANBERRA, March 1969