Speech

By: Dwight Eisenhower

Date: February 22, 1955

Source: Eisenhower, Dwight. Speech to the U.S. Congress. February 22, 1955. Available online at http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/dl/InterstateHighways/Inte... ; website home page: http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu(accessed June 18, 2003).

About the Author: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) graduated from West Point in 1915. By 1940, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. With the eruption of World War II (1939–1945), he swiftly advanced to four-star general in 1943. That same year, he received the assignment to lead one of the largest military campaigns in world history: the D day invasion of June 6, 1944. After the war, he went into politics and served as the thirty-fourth...