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Hello and thank you for downloading our history program witness history as told by the people

who are there. Today we go back to January 1961 and the Farewell speech by American

President Dwight Eisenhower who'd been the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe during

World War II.

Eisenhower was being succeeded by the young John F. Kennedy, and both Eisenhower's

speech on the 17th of January and Kennedy's inaugural address three days later. Eisenhower's grandson and to one of his speechwriters about that time.

Oh, say, can you see by the dawned delight.

Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country,

I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as in traditional

and solemn ceremony the authority of the presidency is vested in my success.

I was a wonderful speech. It was a greatest speech he ever gave and it was a speech that I think goes among the finest speeches ever given by a president.

Stephen Hess was the youngest of Dwight Eisenhower's three speech writers.

The speech got instant attention because of one line about the military industrial complex. It was a wonderful phrase and it was particularly

notable coming from the mouth of a five-star general.

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