Cold wars, through corruption and cynicism, the American People have hungered for leadership founded on integrally, with them and courage. We have sought a leader who is of the people. A man raised to leadership by the people. A leader whose whole life has been spent for the people. A sturdy, humble air to the respect and the affection all peoples felt for lincoln. Such a man as general ike, dwight the eisenhower, the man from abalone. Never in history have so Many Americans know him so much about the very essence of one man. 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know. We know him by heart. Why do we cheer for him . Not because he is a general, but because extensively we believe in him. The hometown boy who is the best of america. His roots are in the heartland. Mainstream usa. I come here first to thank you. To say that the proudest thing i can think of is that i am from abilene. I want to speak first of the dreams of a foot boy. Frequently, they are to be a streetcar conductor or he sees himself as the town policeman. Above all, you may reach the position of locomotive engineer. But always in his dream is that day when finally he comes home, comes home to a welcome from his own hometown. The wheat fields of kansas claim ike as the native son. But the state of texas steak first claim. That is where he was born, on the red river where texas shakes hand with oklahoma. Dwight David Eisenhower was one of seven sons of deeply religious parents. Pennsylvania dutch who moved west and brought the bible with them. No matter where duty takes him, he always likes to give back. Even in paris, his kitchen was can then. Keeping close to the earth and fresh water, fishing was this boys first love. Golf is a new love. Only with fish stories does ike exercise a fishermans right to stretch the truth a little. Raleigh, you should have seen the one that got away, three feet long. If you ask eisenhower like hes dedicated the rest of his life to the service of america instead of retiring to take it easy on his little farm in gettysburg, you will point to a picture of this baby. A chip off the old block. I want my grandson and yours to grow up in a free america. He is proud of his grandchildren. There are three of them now. You can tell that eisenhower believes that our real first mind offense is family, and oldfashioned and well understood american idea. And mired as well in the rest of the world, especially in france. France was the first nation to hail eisenhower his crusade in europe. The french love liberty. Under hitler, they tasted slavery. To frenchman, eisenhower is a liberator. This ally likes ike to. And across the english channel, that hitler could not cross, people of battered london who would never yield to the blitz, surrendered with a cheer to ike. To every londoner, whether hes taken a soldier of mine into his home, i say you always have my profound gratitude. To everyone who has smiling we directed one of my men to the albert call or the marble arch, iowa thanks also. Churchills hopeful history to remember. Ladies and gentlemen, you have listened to the word of a great commander. A man who has proved, not only has capacities to organize, and regulate the movement of others, and who has shown i capacity for making great nations marched together, more united than they ever have before. So, by sensory and simplicity, they conquered britain. Back home, in america, was the first to say i alike ike. And the rest of it shouted to. There was bursting pride, and great friends in america, who understands that washington belongs not to a president , but to the people. I stand before the electorate lawmakers, those things we call the american heritage. Now watch what a country boy can do to the biggest city in the world, new york. Watch the women, watch the young people, watch all the people who make up the surging in descending vote, who are victory at the polls, in november. Watch them fly, the cheers for mr. America. New york simply can do this from a farmer boy, and keep its reputation for its implications. There is another thing, mister mayor, that he pressed me very much as you and i wrote down the cherry, song this morning. The reasons for this, it was nazi polls, one individual, one american that came back from our, and we are rejoicing that the nasty job is done. One nasty job this was. That nasty job, the crusading europe, will be remembered by 3 million americans, who fought they are to keep the water from coming here. These americans will never forget, that has allied leaders, eisenhower was to five star gi, a soldier, with his men as well as state man, who was a match to churchill. A commander who suffer the chalk of each casualty, the citizen soldier who knows debris talenty of war. A man who hates who are. From another general, mcarthur, eisenhower learned about asia. When mcarthur asked him to go to the philippines with, him in 1954, the man he took for that job was eisenhower, from his achievements, not political promises. Americans know the essence of eisenhower, the stakes only executive the man. The american system, ripped upon the rights and dignity of the individual, the success of that state system and depends upon the assumption by each of personal, individual, the responsibility for the safety and welfare of the hole. No government official, no soldier, beneath no other person can assume your responsibility. There is democracy that will cease to exist. A united, and determined american citizenry, is under god, they mightiest force the world has seen. It can protect itself, and leave the world to respect their justice, and the peace. By now, good luck. What out of uniform, as president of columbia, eisenhower warned that communism must be fought on every front. In todays struggle, no free man, no Free Institution can be neutral. All must be joined in a common fight, that of democratic citizenship. There will be no administrative suppression, or destruction of any subject, that merits a place in the universe, in this universities curriculum. The facts of communism are an example, they shall be taught here. Its ideological developments, its political message, its economic effects, its probable courts in the future. The truth about communism is today an indispensable requirement, if the two values of our democratic system are to be properly assessed. Now [inaudible] just as i am a student with you, so you are a soldier with me. No because you are here, from the medley, to prepare yourselves to make this country a greater and better praise for yourselves, your children, and all who may come after you. If we are going to have better homes, better working conditions, better of everything for the hundred and 40 million people, that make up america, then each of us has a responsibility to defend with his life the liberties, the rights that have brought all these things about, and that have allowed us to enjoy them. By time, communism inflame, german youth, a new threat for the free world, eyes led another crusading europe, this time, to wage peace, and to prevent a war, to keep them from burying another war. This new force for freedom, 14 nations strong. Stretching from norway, greece, turkey we hear, representative of many nations, work day by day, with the intricate and ethical problems. We have absolute faith that you can do the job. Of course you can do the job, all it is necessary is that each country remembers that its only like is the best by developing their Common Security so necessary, the task, incident to, it must be the first priority. We require faith, self confidence, devotion, domestic tenacity, always tenacity. In this atomic age, in times far more explosive than any of its president s, the world is divided once more, half slave, half free. Where is now our leader who can sustain and inspire americans already on their arms . A leader who can and that will, our with victory and prevent a spread into bigger war . Where is the leader in america who can cast a stand and inspire our allies . Already fighting the common enemy, from asia to tumble for, in this age of files, the communist hysteric riots that disregard cities in europe, this when innocent. And the cities in the middle east, where is their leader, who has the skill into necessity against aaron unease, who call themselves neighbors . Who can end the violence abroad, and here at home, to . Who can unite, instead of divide, each nation. At a time when 80 of every american budget dollar goes on a defense to our freedom, where is the man with wisdom, and experience who can get the most security for every military dollar, in light of the staggering and taxes. Texas which can bankrupt american, and who risked starting a lawyer who was the one man, stolen in most respects and fears, as leader of the united energies of these free nations . Distinctive of the people of america who know the answer, as it bewilders them wait lincoln, a century ago, we seek eisenhower now, from every heart in the horizon, from women, and youth, and farms, and factories, even from democrats, who place principal above party, from all the people of america, a century has brought a new lincoln to meet the challenge, statement soldier citizen mr. American, dwight David Eisenhower. Coming u