Editorial Note
The following exchange occurred at the President’s news conference of March 10, 1954:
“Q. James J. Patterson, New York News: Mr. President, Senator Stennis said yesterday that we were in danger of becoming involved in World War III in Indochina because of the Air Force technicians there. What will we do if one of those men is captured or killed?
“The President. I will say this: there is going to be no involvement of America in war unless it is a result of the constitutional process that is placed upon Congress to declare it. Now, let us have that clear; and that is the answer.”
For the full record of the President’s news conference of March 10, 1954, see Public Payers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, pages 299–309.