FatMixx (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Included below is a segment of the farewell speech of President Eisenhower. In this speech, he warned of the pitfalls of letting the industries that supplied the growing permanent military grow too strong and too powerful. The warning was made in the abstract, but the concern he imagined was real. It’s not [...]
King Politics (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
When he left office, President Dwight Eisenhower warned us of the dangers of military-industrial complex . I wonder what Ike would think of Barry McCaffrey .
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
A Hanover Park man has been charged with leaving the scene of a hit-and-run crash that left a man dead along the Eisenhower Expressway near west suburban Elmhurst, police said. Jose Lopez was on the right shoulder along the eastbound lanes of I-290 near St. Charles Road after his semi truck broke down when he was struck by a pick-up truck about 12:30 p.m., Illinois State Police Elgin District...
Rebuild the Party on UserVoice (Free subscription) | yesterday
ronpaulkid suggested: The Republicans have always been voted in to end the wars. Eisenhower for the Korean War, Nixon for the Vietnam War. It is in our conservative roots but has lost its way with the Bush Administration. Instead of limiting government, we expanded government. In the foreign policy category, Republicans must be strong and advocate a large, well trained military and a strong...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Here's the count. You decide. Dwight Eisenhower: 2 recessions Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford: 2 recessions Ronald Reagan: 1 recession George H.W. Bush: 1 recession...
Politics Index (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
George M. Docherty died this Thanksgiving. If you’ve never heard of Rev. George Docherty, he’s the one who gave us the “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegience.On Feb. 7, 1954, with President Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting in Linco...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The moment of fame for the Scottish-born pastor George Docherty occurred in 1954 with a sermon that persuaded President Dwight Eisenhower to include the words “under God” in the US Pledge of Allegiance. On February 7, 1954, with Eisenhower sitting in Abraham Lincoln’s pew in the historic Washington Presbyterian Church, a few blocks from the White House, Docherty asserted that “to omit...
US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... White House. Also, next door, you can see that the Christmas decorations have been placed on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Tomorrow, first lady Laura Bush plans to let the press in for a look at the White House Christmas decorations.
Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Most Americans are surprised to learn that the Pledge of Allegiance did not originally contain the phrase "under God". Like the phrase "In God We Trust" on currency, it was added much later, signed into law by President Eisenhower in...
TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
by Deb Cupples | During his farewell address in 1961, the late President Dwight Eisenhower warned America to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." No doubt, if the late President is looking down upon our nation from a...
US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The risk: "Cheapen the president's message." Obama has been a big proponent of Web communications, using outlets like YouTube to let Americans into his transition. And aides are expected to revamp the popular White House website to get his message out—and around the White House press corps. At a seminar hosted by Stephen Hess, the former Eisenhower aide and Brookings Institution scholar who...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... we have to feed the bulldog: those butt-ugly card-carrying descendants of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's military-industrial complex, the one he warned about so presciently in his 1960 farewell address. Rest assured, mutually or not: missile shields mean slapping on a nuclear condom and hoping like hell it won't spring a leak. The best example of Trojan shield-think comes from Brian T....
Autosavant (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
As a young Lieutenant Colonel, Dwight David Eisenhower was faced with the mission of travelling from Washington D.C. to San Francisco with his convoy. It was not an easy task. Along the trail, bridges ruptured and had to be rebuilt while convoy transport struggled through mud and difficult terrain. Even with the help of local communities, the trip took nearly a two full months, from July 7th...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
From MSNBC : Pastor who helped get 'God' in U.S. pledge dies President Eisenhower heard his allegiance...( read more )
FilmChat (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
The Rev. George M. Docherty died this week at the age of 97. He is widely credited with giving a sermon in 1954 that inspired President Eisenhower and others to pass a law that year which added the words "under God" to the American Pledge of Allegiance . Reading Docherty's obituaries today, I was struck by two facts: one, he was a Scotsman, and two, he was pastor at the New York Avenue Presbyterian...
