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Public Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
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298
Statement by the President on the Cost of Living.
October 24, 1958
I WAS GRATIFIED to learn from yesterday’s report on consumer prices that the cost of living, virtually stable since last May, has continued unchanged. It shows that for the second successive month the retail cost of food to the American housewife is down. To be sure, some retail prices have gone up in recent months, but others are lower than they have been in a year or more.
This means that the recent gains in weekly earnings of American workers represent real increases in buying power, not just offsets against higher prices. These earnings have increased more than 5 percent since February. Their actual buying power is higher than it has been for well over a year and is 15 percent above what it was in 1952.
Most important to all Americans, it confirms the fact that recovery is possible without inflation. We must preserve this stability in the value of the dollar without recourse to stifling controls.
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Chicago:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, "298 Statement by the President on the Cost of Living.," Public Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 in Federal Register Division. National Archives and Records Service, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1956-), P.870 Original Sources, accessed July 12, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2LWFZNYGNWMFUF.
MLA:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. "298 Statement by the President on the Cost of Living." Public Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958, in Federal Register Division. National Archives and Records Service, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1956-), P.870, Original Sources. 12 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2LWFZNYGNWMFUF.
Harvard:
Eisenhower, DD, '298 Statement by the President on the Cost of Living.' in Public Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958. cited in , Federal Register Division. National Archives and Records Service, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1956-), P.870. Original Sources, retrieved 12 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L2LWFZNYGNWMFUF.
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