What Trump and Clinton can learn from Ike Eisenhower
Memories of 9/11 and the people swept away on that day will always haunt the gleaming new One World Trade Center (Photos: AFP/Imagebank)
Three days before he left the Oval Office after serving two full terms as president Dwight David Eisenhower delivered a parting message to his fellow Americans on national television.
“We face a hostile ideology global in scope atheistic in character ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger it poses promises to be of indefinite duration ” Eisenhower said.
The date was January 17 1961 just as a much younger and more dashing John F. Kennedy was days away from stepping into the shoes of the grandfatherly 70-year-old Ike.
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