Eisenhower
The Public Record
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Kansas and rose to prominence as a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. Eisenhower served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe, overseeing the successful D-Day invasion and the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
This is at once a result and a cause of existing tension and distrust.
I came with the formations of war and all of the circumstances of war surrounded that journey at that time.
This is a much more pleasant day than when I last visited you--that was in mid-January.
I came to Europe with an army, a navy, an air force, with a single purpose: to destroy Nazism.
I have come here, in this beautiful country of yours, to meet with my colleagues from other countries to see whether it is not possible to find some road that will lead all mankind into a more tranquil, better, fuller way of life.
This time I come armed with something far more powerful: the good will of America--the great hopes of America--the aspirations of America for peace.
I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the said…





