EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Six typescript drafts of the First Inaugural Address WITH MANY HOLOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY EISENHOWER, [ca. December - January 1953]. Together 79 pages, 4to, heavily edited in pencil and pen [ With :] a printed copy of the Address, and three memoranda by Emmet J. Hughes concerning the drafts. WORKING DRAFTS OF IKE'S 1953 INAUGURAL: "HISTORY'S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE BETWEEN TYRANNY AND FREEDOM HAS REACHED A NEW INTENSITY" Speechwriter Emmet J. Hughes composed a "rough draft" of Eisenhower's first Inaugural Address, but the General's mind, voice--and pen--loom large in each of the succeeding versions included here. The President-elect added several hundred words in his own hand, sometimes filling whole pages with new text, including this dramatic passage that would become the opening thought of his Address: "The world and we have passed the midway point of a century of conflict. History's never ending struggle between tyranny and freedom has reached a new intensity..." This was far better than the bland version of his speechwriters: "The world and we have come to the midway point of a century of challenge..." "I hate this sentence," Ike wrote in the margin. "Who challenges whom?" He adds biting words about the totalitarian enemies of the U. S.: "Above all they hate and seek to destroy our faith in God and in the dignity of man. They sense that in this faith is the true sense of the strength of freedom and of free institutions among men." In a page-long addendum (written on the verso of page 10 of the draft) Ike outlines the three key "foundation stones" of America's freedom: first and foremost "spiritual strength" followed by "economic strength" and "military strength...a product of the first two..." In another draft he makes a marginal note on page 2 that warns of the perils of nuclear war: "man's inventions has brought us to the threshold of an ability to depopulate the earth." He takes exception when a passage on page 12 of one draft says: "We must be ready to show patience. For the nation, like the soldier, that becomes recklessly impatient, may die gloriously but surely dies swiftly." Ike writes alongside: "I don't believe this is necessarily true. It may take more courage to be patient--but the impatient soldier is sometimes the best." Together 10 items . (10)
EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Six typescript drafts of the First Inaugural Address WITH MANY HOLOGRAPH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY EISENHOWER, [ca. December - January 1953]. Together 79 pages, 4to, heavily edited in pencil and pen [ With :] a printed copy of the Address, and three memoranda by Emmet J. Hughes concerning the drafts. WORKING DRAFTS OF IKE'S 1953 INAUGURAL: "HISTORY'S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE BETWEEN TYRANNY AND FREEDOM HAS REACHED A NEW INTENSITY" Speechwriter Emmet J. Hughes composed a "rough draft" of Eisenhower's first Inaugural Address, but the General's mind, voice--and pen--loom large in each of the succeeding versions included here. The President-elect added several hundred words in his own hand, sometimes filling whole pages with new text, including this dramatic passage that would become the opening thought of his Address: "The world and we have passed the midway point of a century of conflict. History's never ending struggle between tyranny and freedom has reached a new intensity..." This was far better than the bland version of his speechwriters: "The world and we have come to the midway point of a century of challenge..." "I hate this sentence," Ike wrote in the margin. "Who challenges whom?" He adds biting words about the totalitarian enemies of the U. S.: "Above all they hate and seek to destroy our faith in God and in the dignity of man. They sense that in this faith is the true sense of the strength of freedom and of free institutions among men." In a page-long addendum (written on the verso of page 10 of the draft) Ike outlines the three key "foundation stones" of America's freedom: first and foremost "spiritual strength" followed by "economic strength" and "military strength...a product of the first two..." In another draft he makes a marginal note on page 2 that warns of the perils of nuclear war: "man's inventions has brought us to the threshold of an ability to depopulate the earth." He takes exception when a passage on page 12 of one draft says: "We must be ready to show patience. For the nation, like the soldier, that becomes recklessly impatient, may die gloriously but surely dies swiftly." Ike writes alongside: "I don't believe this is necessarily true. It may take more courage to be patient--but the impatient soldier is sometimes the best." Together 10 items . (10)
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