President Eisenhower's News Conference of August 7, 1957
1957-8-7
President Eisenhower takes questions from reporters. Many are concerned with a pending civil rights bill. Eisenhower says that the won't comment on whether he will veto the bill until the bill is before him; he refers reporters to a statement that he made on August 2. Other topics include possible staff changes, unions, the behavior of the Congress, Walter Jodok Kohler, Jr.'s campaign for governor, Eisenhower's acceptance of gifts, an equal rights amendment, the Girard Case, immigration law, disarmament, Mamie Eisenhower's health, a clean bomb, and Eisenhower's relationship with Marshal Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov.




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