Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.
The President was sending a message not only to the world, but to the Taft, isolationist wing of his own party.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969, 34th President of the United States (Republican, KS), Second Inaugural Address, January 21, 1957
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He did not personally deliver the speech in Stockholm as at the time he feared that if he left the Soviet Union he would not be allowed back in. So he wrote it, and it was read for him.
Later in his life Auden was upset with the last line and insisted that his 1955 publisher replace the “or” with “and.”
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.