Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, ...

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower recorded a speech broadcast in Europe on D-Day but it's the text of his Order of the Day from June 6, 1944 that inspires.

I recently read Stephen Ambrose’s excellent biography, Eisenhower: Soldier and President, on our nation’s 34th president. In the 640-page tome, Ambrose discusses the famous farewell address Eisenhower ...

President Joe Biden will be making a farewell address to the nation in his final days in office. But before that let’s take a step back in time to a previous presidential farewell, that of Dwight D.

Sometimes history gets revealed in small, nearly forgotten scraps. The Allied invasion of Normandy took place this week in 1944. On the evening of June 5, the largest armada in history began to churn ...

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On Jan. 17, 1961, President Eisenhower used his farewell address to warn Americans that: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the ...