Eisenhower: “I urge employees of the Federal Government and members of the military establishments to continue their fine record in…”

It never even occurred to me to make that as one of the basic issues--what to do with Mr. Khrushchev.

We shall eventually have a world in which all men are brothers, and in which the outstretched hand is not that of a tyrant, but the hand of friendship.

No petty differences of any kind can ever tear apart these two great countries.

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.