Americans expecting a hero's farewell speech—the kind that General Douglas MacArthur gave at West Point one year later—were surprised by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's final address from the ...

I first encountered Dwight ... What Eisenhower is best known for today is his farewell address, or, as he put it, his “last goodnight to you as your president.” This speech was a sort of ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...