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Farewell Address: drafts and reading copy (Eisenhower Library)

Collection · written 17 January 1961 · released Unknown

Why this matters

Successive drafts, the reading copy and related correspondence for Eisenhower's January 1961 farewell speech. Comparing drafts shows how the warning about the 'military-industrial complex' was worked out with his speechwriters over many months. Everyone has heard the line; very few have read the edits that produced it.

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https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (NARA). "Farewell Address: drafts and reading copy (Eisenhower Library)." 17 January 1961. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0025).

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