inted 11 months before to find out what America's national purpose
should be.

The national purpose of this nation _should be_ exactly what it was
during the first 125 years of our national life: to stand as proof that
free men can govern themselves; to blaze a trail toward freedom, a trail
which all people, if they wish, can follow or guide themselves by,
without any meddling from us.

Hydrogen bombs and airplanes and intercontinental ballistic missiles do
not change basic principles. The principles on which our nation was
founded are eternal, as valid now as in the 18th century.

Indeed, modern developments in science should make us cling to those
principles. If foreign enemies can now destroy our nation by pressing a
button, it seems obvious that our total defense effort should be devoted
to protecting our nation against such an attack: it is suicidal for us
to waste any of our defense effort on "economic improvement" and
military assistance for other nations.

All of this being obvious, it is also obvious that the President's
Commission on National Goals was not really trying to discover our
"national purpose." "National Purpose" was the label for a propaganda
effort intended to help perpetuate governmental policies, which are
dragging America into international socialism, regardless of who
succeeded Eisenhower as President.

The Report is actually a rehash of major provisions in the 1960 Democrat
and Republican party platforms. More than that, it is, in several
fundamental and specific ways, identical with the 1960 published program
of the communist party. (For a full discussion of the President's
Commission on National Goals, see _The Dan Smoot Report_, "Our National
Purpose," December 12, 1960.)

Who were the "distinguished" Americans whom Eisenhower appointed to draw
this blueprint of America's National Purpose? They were:

Erwin D. Canham, Editor-in-Chief of the _Christian Science
Monitor_; James B. Conant, former President of Harvard; Colgate W.
Darden, Jr., former President of the University of Virginia and
former Governor of Virginia; Crawford H. Greenewalt, President of
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.; General Alfred M. Gruenther,
President of the American Red Cross; Learned Hand, retired judge of
the U.S. Court of Appeals; Clark Kerr, President of the University
of California; James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the Massachusetts
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