Scope and Content Note
The papers of Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) include speeches, writings, a letter, a memorial service program, and oversized printed matter that span the years 1944-1969. In 1946 Eisenhower worked on a summary description of the war in Europe, drawn from the full military report he directed, which would encapsulate his strategy and its implementation. The typewritten draft in the collection of "Summary of Operations in Northwest Europe" has Eisenhower's pencilled emendations. The collection also includes a copy of Eisenhower's 1953 inaugural speech and prayer and a draft copy of his speech on disarmament given in 1955 at Geneva, Switzerland. A copy of a letter by him dated 1946 to William E. Brooks concerns his thoughts on Brooks's book about Ulysses S. Grant. The memorial program is from a service held in 1969 on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City. Oversized printed matter includes copies of Eisenhower's appointment in 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt as general of the army and proclamations of military rule in Germany and Austria made by Eisenhower as supreme commander at the end of World War II.