| Ike Reports - Quitting Europe Perils US Congress Is Told | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1556 |
| Catalog #: | 351062 | |
| Clip Number: | 351062-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 024-427-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:07:48 - 00:10:18 | |
| Location: | Washington, DC | |
| Year Shot: | 1951 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Spectators GOVERNMENT: United States, Congress LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. MILITARY: Officers PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) | |
| Description: | Ike Reports - Quitting Europe Perils US Congress Is Told General Eisenhower, on his return from a military survey of European Pact Nations tells an informal gathering of members of congress that the free nations of the earth can fend off the dangers of totalitarianism but they must bear their share. General Eisenhower: "I do not believe for example, that the United States can pick up the world on its economic, financial, material shoulders and carry it. We must have cooperation if we are going to work with other nations. The results of the effort being the future, the common good, the common security of the free world, of the nations of the free world. We are not attempting to build a force that has any aggressive, any belligerent intent. We are concerned only with one thing, a world in which a power, military might is still to much respected. We are going to build for ourselves a secure wall of peace, of security. Now, the cost of peace is going to be sacrifice. Very great sacrifice, individual and national. But the toll of war is tragedy. Topically suicide of our civilization. I came Ladies and Gentlemen with the purpose of just rendering just a report. It is not just my proper role to be exhorting benevolence. I'm trying not to make my words those of education. I'm trying to make them those of deep conviction. That the world, our world has arrived at a decade of decision". Establishing shot - General Eisenhower stand at a desk facing the informal session of congressional members. A young Richard Nixon sits in the audience MCU General Eisenhower addressing his congressional audience. MCU The closing of the report, the audience applauds. | |
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