[Rarebooks] FS: Dwight Eisenhower's first STATE OF THE UNION Address, Inscribed and Signed

[Charles Agvent]

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  EISENHOWER,  Dwight.  THE  STATE  OF THE  UNION.  ADDRESS  OF  THE
PRESIDENT  OF  THE UNITED STATES DELIVERED BEFORE A JOINT  SESSION....
[Washington,  DC]:  [1953].  First Edition. Printed wraps;  15  pages.
INSCRIBED  and SIGNED by the new President on the blank margin at  the
very  end  of  the  speech to an Ohio newspaper  reporter  "with  best
wishes."  Eisenhower's first State of the Union Address, delivered two
weeks  after  his Inaugural Address. In talking about the Korean  War,
Eisenhower  states:  "Our  problem  is to  achieve  adequate  military
strength  within  the limits of endurable strain upon our economy.  To
amass  military power without regard to our economic capacity would be
to  defend  ourselves  against  one   kind  of  disaster  by  inviting
another."  This is a clear foreshadowing of his later landmark warning
against  the  military industrial complex just before he left  office.
Ink  stamp  on title page: "From the Office of Homer  Ferguson  United
States  Senator."  Minor  wrinkling  and   light  soiling.  Very  Good
                                                               $2000.00

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