President Donald Trump’s speech will have blanket television coverage and all the pomp and circumstance of previous speeches, but it isn’t technically a State of the Union address. The president ...

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 ...

Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled ... In 1953, Ike delivered a speech underscoring the potential human cost of the Cold War to both sides. Hoping to strike a more ...

Adolf Hitler wanted Paris razed. Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted his troops to stay out of the city. In August 1944, an uprising by French resistance fighters forced the Allies to intervene Erick ...

Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled ... In 1953, Ike delivered a speech underscoring the potential human cost of the Cold War to both sides. Hoping to strike a more ...