Eisenhower: “In accordance with our agreement, I expect to deliver my State of the Union Message to the Congress personally on…”

Our unity as a nation is sustained by free communication of thought and by easy transportation of people and goods.

I assure you that our obligation to you is deep and lasting.

I find and declare that adjustments must be made in the imports of crude oil and unfinished oils for overestimates and underestimates of total demand.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.