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General Andrew Goodpaster, former staff secretary and defense liaison officer to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about the former president’s views of the military industrial complex,…

John Eisenhower, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General and son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about his father’s role as Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He also spoke about President…

President Gerald Ford talked about President Dwight D. Eisenhower, including the 1952 election and the Republican Party’s domestic agenda, McCarthyism, civil rights, and President Eisenhower’s…

James Reston, the New York Times Washington bureau chief during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency, spoke about President Eisenhower’s foreign policy strategies, the president’s relations with the…

Herbert Brownell, former U.S. attorney general and senior campaign strategist for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, talked about his relationship with President Eisenhower, the 1952 presidential…

Ray Cline, former chief Soviet analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), detailed the growth of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Eisenhower, and described President Eisenhower as a “man devoted…

Walter Cronkite spoke with independent producer George Colburn about President Dwight Eisenhower’s military and political career. Mr. Cronkite knew President Eisenhower in England during World War II and recalled…

In unedited excerpts from a 1995 conversation former Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby spoke about post-war America, the rise of communism within and outside the United States…

Retired General Bernard Schriever, who directed the U.S. Air Force’s development of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), spoke about technological advances made during the Eisenhower presidency that led directly to…

John Connally, who served as a long-time adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson, spoke with independent producer George Colburn about the relations between President Eisenhower and Senate Majority Leader Johnson, the…

Former President Richard Nixon spoke with independent producer George Colburn about President Dwight Eisenhower’s military and political career. President Nixon served as Dwight D. Eisenhower’s…