Dwight D. Eisenhower: Early life, Military career, and Presidential influence

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<p>Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, you are about</p>
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<p>to embark upon the great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.</p>
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<p>The eyes of the world are upon you.</p>
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<p>The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you.</p>
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<p>In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other</p>
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<p>fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine.</p>
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<p>The elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe and</p>
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<p>security for ourselves in a free world.</p>
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<p>Your task will not be an easy one.</p>
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<p>Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle hardened.</p>
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<p>He will fight savagely.</p>
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<p>But this is the year 1944.</p>
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<p>Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940 41.</p>
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<p>The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats</p>
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<p>in open battle, man to man.</p>
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<p>Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their</p>
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<p>capacity to wage war on the ground.</p>
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<p>Our home fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in</p>
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<p>weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great</p>
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<p>reserves of trained fighting men.</p>
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<p>The tide has turned.</p>
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<p>The free men of the world are marching together to victory.</p>
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<p>I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.</p>
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<p>We will accept nothing less than full victory.</p>
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<p>Good luck.</p>
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<p>And let us all beseech the blessing of almighty God upon</p>
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<p>this great and noble undertaking.</p>
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<p>What's kind of the first place we stopped on our road</p>
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<p>trip?</p>
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<p>Well, after we stopped in.</p>
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<p>Nashville, we were driving across Kansas, and we saw signs for the</p>
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<p>Eisenhower, um, Presidential Museum and Library, and we're like, oh my</p>
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<p>gosh, it's right along the interstate.</p>
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<p>Yeah, we hadn't planned on stopping there.</p>
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<p>We hadn't planned on stopping there, but it was, it's right off the interstate, and</p>
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<p>it was a perfect time stop with our kids.</p>
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<p>And so we stopped at the Dwight D.</p>
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<p>Eisenhower Presidential Library and</p>
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<p>Museum.</p>
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<p>That's right.</p>
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<p>So, and I don't think...</p>
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<p>Too many commonly know that he is from the middle of nowhere, Kansas.</p>
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<p>Yeah, he is</p>
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<p>from Abilene, Kansas So that's where we stopped we stopped It's basically</p>
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<p>the middle of Kansas and he moved there when he was two years old He was born in</p>
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<p>Texas, but he there's his family moves there when he's two so he considers it his</p>
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<p>hometown Yeah, he was born.</p>
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<p>I believe in Denison,</p>
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<p>Texas, Denison, Texas, October 14th 1890</p>
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<p>1890 And then we, we kind of, we get off the freeway, we're like, Hey,</p>
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<p>this actually works out perfectly for us.</p>
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<p>It's right.</p>
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<p>It was right on our lunch break.</p>
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<p>It's, it's a few minutes off the freeway, off the 70.</p>
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<p>And so we, we drive in there and we are smack in the middle of Kansas.</p>
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<p>There's, there's not much out there and it is, it's one of those towns,</p>
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<p>like the thing that it's known for is being the hometown of Kansas.</p>
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<p>of Dwight D.</p>
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<p>Eisenhower.</p>
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<p>So it's Eisenhower's Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home.</p>
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<p>And that's kind of why the museum and library is located there, is because it's</p>
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<p>kind of built around his boyhood home.</p>
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<p>And, um, the address is 200 Southeast 4th Street in Abilene, Kansas.</p>
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<p>And it's basically, it's a 22 acre Spread campus and you can stop there.</p>
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<p>The admission is free and it's going to encompass a library, a museum.</p>
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<p>There's a chapel where he is buried with his wife and son, and then</p>
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<p>they have like a visitor center.</p>
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<p>where they have a movie and a gift shop, but they also have a nice</p>
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<p>kind of garden with a statue of him.</p>
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<p>And of course his boyhood home.</p>
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<p>The</p>
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<p>thing is, we didn't have a ton of time this because</p>
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<p>this wasn't planned for us.</p>
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<p>We didn't go into the museum.</p>
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<p>We didn't go inside too much of the stuff, the visitor center a little bit.</p>
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<p>And then we kind of toured around, like you said, that the.</p>
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<p>larger kind of garden area where the statue was and we saw his rest in place.</p>
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<p>Yeah, we</p>
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<p>take you outside of everything.</p>
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<p>We didn't go in the museum or the library.</p>
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<p>We go to the statue, we go outside the boyhood home, but we go into</p>
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<p>the place of meditation, the burial site, and we go into the visitors.</p>
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<p>Yeah, and that's</p>
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<p>all in the video.</p>
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<p>I'll link that in the show notes, but...</p>
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<p>Let's step back and kind of start from the beginning for here.</p>
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<p>So tell us a little bit about Ike.</p>
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<p>Ike.</p>
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<p>So he, again, he's born in Denison, Texas.</p>
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<p>He's born David Dwight Eisenhower on October 14th, 1890.</p>
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<p>He's the third of seven boys.</p>
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<p>Can you imagine?</p>
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<p>I cannot.</p>
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<p>And he's born to Ida Stover and David Eisenhower.</p>
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<p>So if you recognize David David, it wasn't long, his mother soon</p>
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<p>reversed his name to avoid confusion.</p>
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<p>So we know him as Dwight David Eisenhower.</p>
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<p>Uh, but he was born David Dwight Eisenhower.</p>
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<p>So it wasn't, um, long, two years after he's born, they moved to Abilene, Kansas.</p>
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<p>And the house...</p>
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<p>That you see there, they move into in 1898, so he's actually eight years</p>
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<p>old when he moves into that house, but that is the one that survives.</p>
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<p>That's his boyhood home.</p>
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<p>And that house is there all the way up until, I think it's</p>
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<p>1946, when Ida will pass away.</p>
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<p>Okay, so all the boys are raised there.</p>
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<p>Her, his father will pass away there.</p>
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<p>His mother will pass away in 1946 and 1947, it becomes open to the public.</p>
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<p>So it's given to the National Park Service.</p>
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<p>So what you see of that boyhood home is the Eisenhowers</p>
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<p>were the last to live there.</p>
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<p>And then after Ida passes, it's open to the public for everyone.</p>
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<p>And what's interesting about that house is that it's all through the war.</p>
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<p>So I mentioned that in the video, like they're going to be getting</p>
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<p>telegrams as their son is the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.</p>
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<p>Uh, in Germany.</p>
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<p>So they're going to be getting all that updates, all those, um,</p>
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<p>telegrams and things along that.</p>
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<p>They're going to be in that house as it happens.</p>
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<p>And what's very interesting is Ida was like anti war.</p>
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<cite>Jenn:</cite>
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<p>Oh, interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>She did not believe in the war, but she had some books</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:52</time>
<p>about war, um, in the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:55</time>
<p>And he read them as a young kid and he was very interested in it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:00</time>
<p>But what actually happened for Eisenhower is they don't come</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:04</time>
<p>from a lot of means, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:06</time>
<p>And so he, him and his older brother decided we will go to college in tandem.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:12</time>
<p>You go a year, I'll work to pay for you to go.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:14</time>
<p>I'll go a year and you pay to work while I go and we'll</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:18</time>
<p>finish college back and forth.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:19</time>
<p>forth like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:20</time>
<p>Kind of think of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:21</time>
<p>It's a wonderful life when him and his brother are like, I'm going to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:23</time>
<p>work so to pay for you and you can work, you know, well, what happens</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>is his brother is doing so well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:29</time>
<p>He asks to stay another year.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:31</time>
<p>Ike is like, yes, I'll work some more, um, to pay for you to stay in college.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>And then someone says to him, you know, you could go to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:37</time>
<p>like the academies for free.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>And he's like, Oh, I never really thought about that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:43</time>
<p>So he applies to the Naval Academy and West Point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>Now he's too, he gets an appointment for both, but he's too old at the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:49</time>
<p>time to go to the Naval Academy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:51</time>
<p>Oh, no way.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:52</time>
<p>So he goes to West Point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:52</time>
<p>So he goes to West Point in 1915 when he actually graduates</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:56</time>
<p>Abilene High School in 1909.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:59</time>
<p>Oh</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:59</time>
<p>wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
<p>So he was, he was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
<p>older going through.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:01</time>
<p>Oh wait.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:02</time>
<p>So he graduates in 1915.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:03</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:04</time>
<p>So yeah, he's class of 1909.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:07</time>
<p>His appointment to West Point in 1911, so two years after he's graduated.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:11</time>
<p>And then, so he's, he's older and he's an average student.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:15</time>
<p>He's not, you know, he's not a top of his class, he's not MacArthur, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:20</time>
<p>The highest ever graduated from West Point, which is interesting because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:24</time>
<p>he'll work for MacArthur and they're both five star generals in the end.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:28</time>
<p>But, um, so he graduates in 1915 and he does it because it's free.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:34</time>
<p>So you can</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:34</time>
<p>understand.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>I mean, that's, that's why I went to the Naval Academy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:38</time>
<p>My parents didn't</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:38</time>
<p>have to pay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:39</time>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:39</time>
<p>And that's why I got the RIT scholarship to Penn State.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:41</time>
<p>So he saw the same means that we saw, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:45</time>
<p>We're able to get an education through service.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:48</time>
<p>That's, that's so interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:50</time>
<p>And it kind of makes me wonder what that conversation was like with his mom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>Who's kind of obviously.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:56</time>
<p>We find out later, kind of anti war, right, and here is his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
<p>son going to West Point, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:02</time>
<p>One of the most prestigious military academies in the world.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:06</time>
<p>You know, I'm sure back then, and if you think about it, right, if he's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:09</time>
<p>born in 1890 and here it is, you know, let's say 20 years later, right,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:13</time>
<p>he goes approximately when he's 20.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:16</time>
<p>That's not that long after that, that mentality of getting your</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:19</time>
<p>start in the world through the military is still relative.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>It must.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:25</time>
<p>have still been in the culture back then.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:27</time>
<p>Cause even think about some of the, we talk about civil war and American</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
<p>revolution, a lot of businessmen either went into the military when</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:36</time>
<p>conflicts happened or they got their start there to kind of get themselves</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:40</time>
<p>established.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:41</time>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:42</time>
<p>Like even doing, you think of Hamilton, he keeps saying, I wish</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:45</time>
<p>there was a war we can make our name.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:47</time>
<p>Because he has no means he's coming from no means.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:50</time>
<p>So this was a way...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:51</time>
<p>for young men who wanted to make their name for themselves to really establish</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:56</time>
<p>themselves in society and when you think about Other people who have done this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:03</time>
<p>remember Lincoln's son Robert he wants to join the Civil War right because even</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:10</time>
<p>as a gentleman who has means and he's able to go to school He still wants to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:14</time>
<p>be a part of it because this really is at the time and maybe even so today Men</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>really measured this as your service.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:22</time>
<p>As you know, you have established yourself as a man in society.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:27</time>
<p>You're defending something, you're part of something, you're, you know, serving</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:32</time>
<p>your country.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:33</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:33</time>
<p>I mean, and, and obviously military service is still highly respected today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>And that's gone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:37</time>
<p>come and gone in waves.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>Mm-hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:39</time>
<p>, you know, in, in, in the country, depending on conflicts going on.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:42</time>
<p>But back then, I think it was still even more so that old school mentality of.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:46</time>
<p>seen very, very highly in society as like, Oh, you're an army officer</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:51</time>
<p>or you're a naval officer, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:52</time>
<p>That's you know, they do this in movies women even sought out, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:58</time>
<p>know Oh, he's a captain in the army or the Navy or whatever it is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:01</time>
<p>Yeah, so that's interesting that that's Uh that he went to West Point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:05</time>
<p>Yeah, so he went to West Point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>Um, it's not even long.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:08</time>
<p>So he's graduating in 1915 He gets married in 1916.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:12</time>
<p>So he meets, uh, Mamie Dowd.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:15</time>
<p>She is they meet in Texas She's from Iowa</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:18</time>
<p>and you know what if you see young pictures of Dwight Eisenhower, he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>is a handsome man He is a very handsome.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:24</time>
<p>I could look it up and watch our video But you, you look up some young videos</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:28</time>
<p>of him and his wife, like, when he's still at Their wedding picture, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:32</time>
<p>He is a good looking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>guy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>If you look at their wedding picture, she's sitting and he's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
<p>standing with his arms crossed.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>He didn't want to wrinkle his uniform.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:38</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:39</time>
<p>That's why he's not sitting down.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>But, uh, yeah, he's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
<p>It's very handsome.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:43</time>
<p>And they get married, I think, in someone's living room.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:45</time>
<p>So it's of that time again where marriages happen relatively quickly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:49</time>
<p>And as you can imagine, World War I, we're on the cusp of World War I here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:53</time>
<p>So he doesn't get to go over for World War I, but he ends up training a tank crew.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:00</time>
<p>And he will do that in 1918.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:02</time>
<p>He will get stationed outside of Gettysburg, and that'll be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:04</time>
<p>more relevant later when we get to the Eisenhower Gettysburg.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:08</time>
<p>Gettysburg Ranch.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:09</time>
<p>So it's a, it's an area he always loved and that he's stationed out there</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
<p>training a tank crew and then, you know, he's going to, of course, work his way</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:17</time>
<p>up in the military by World War II.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:21</time>
<p>You know, he's Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff for MacArthur, and then he becomes</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:25</time>
<p>Supreme Allied Commander and then he of the expeditionary forces for Germany.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:31</time>
<p>And that's when he becomes a five star general, uh, in 1944, but he's a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:36</time>
<p>part of two big campaigns that really make his name Operation Torch in North</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:41</time>
<p>Africa, very big tank driven operation and then D Day invasion of Normandy in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
<p>1944.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>If you're listening and you haven't seen our video on this, I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:50</time>
<p>actually found, I think it was a CBS interview where he goes back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:55</time>
<p>with Walter Cronkite to Normandy 20 years after D Day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:58</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:59</time>
<p>And so it's really, really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:01</time>
<p>So I put that footage in the video, and I highly encourage</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:04</time>
<p>you to go watch it because it's really neat to see Eisenhower.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
<p>I mean, he's talking about all these movements.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:10</time>
<p>He's talking about the operation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:11</time>
<p>He's talking about all this stuff like he remembered it yesterday.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:15:14</time>
<p>I went over to a...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:15</time>
<p>The field from which the, uh, Airborne, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:18</time>
<p>American Airborne, started out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:20</time>
<p>Now, I couldn't go to all these fields because there were many of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:23</time>
<p>But I did go into the 101st Division.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:26</time>
<p>And, um, it was a very fine experience.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:30</time>
<p>They were getting ready and all camouflaged and their</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:34</time>
<p>faces blackened and all this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>And they saw me and of course they recognized me and said,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>Now quit worrying, General.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:39</time>
<p>We'll take care of this thing for you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:41</time>
<p>That kind of, of a thing was a good feeling.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:46</time>
<p>And what I really appreciated about that interview, and we'll talk</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:50</time>
<p>about this more, what, what he What he says is important to him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:55</time>
<p>So he has two sons, and his first son, Daud, which is his wife's maiden name,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:00</time>
<p>is born a year after they're married.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:02</time>
<p>And Daud will actually pass away at three years old from scarlet fever.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:06</time>
<p>Eisenhower is reluctant to ever discuss his death.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:08</time>
<p>And that is when I talked about the place of meditation where</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:11</time>
<p>Eisenhower was buried with his wife.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:13</time>
<p>Their son is also buried there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:15</time>
<p>Son was initially buried in Denver.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:17</time>
<p>Colorado, but when they're both interred there in Abilene, Kansas,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:22</time>
<p>they reinterred their son with them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:24</time>
<p>And we have a second son, John, who's born in 1922, and he graduates</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:30</time>
<p>from West Point on D Day, 1944.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:33</time>
<p>And that's what Eisenhower says he remembers, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:36</time>
<p>I remember D Day, but I remember thinking of the young men who are doing this,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:41</time>
<p>who are actually in this operation.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:43</time>
<p>And I think of my son, because it's not, he's so tied.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:48</time>
<p>to it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:48</time>
<p>Not only is he ordering men to this fight, his son is going</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:52</time>
<p>to be a part of this fight.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:53</time>
<p>And this is his only surviving child.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
<p>So it's for me, I just, it says a lot about the man that that's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:01</time>
<p>what he remembers about that day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
<p>And the quote that I really love, like, when you think that this is</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:07</time>
<p>happening in 1944, and you're going to actually get the surrender of Germany</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:12</time>
<p>in May of A month later, he's going to give the quote, The proudest thing I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:19</time>
<p>can claim is that I am from Abilene.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>He says that in June of 1945.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:24</time>
<p>So, a month after the, the German surrender for World War II, that's the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:31</time>
<p>proudest thing he's, to me, it just says a lot about the character of the man.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
<p>And so, to be in Abilene, Kansas, and see That place that he's proud</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:41</time>
<p>of, to see where he's really tethered and anchored, it does say a lot about</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>who he is, and I appreciated being there, and being a part of that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:50</time>
<p>Yeah, hearing his perspective in that interview, and it was a 90 minute</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:54</time>
<p>interview, and I didn't end up watching the whole thing, I tried to find some</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:57</time>
<p>of the interesting bits for our video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:59</time>
<p>But hearing his perspective on what he thought about, like you said,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:03</time>
<p>his son graduating from West Point on D Day, the day that this is</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:07</time>
<p>happening, and he basically says,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
<p>Walter, this D Day has a very special meaning for me.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:14</time>
<p>My mind goes back so often to this fact.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:18</time>
<p>On D Day, my own son graduated from West Point.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
<p>And uh, after his...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:25</time>
<p>Training, uh, with his division, he came over with the 71st Division, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:29</time>
<p>that was some time after this event.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:33</time>
<p>But on the very day he was graduating, these men came here.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
<p>British, and our other allies, Americans.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
<p>To storm these beaches, for one purpose only.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:48</time>
<p>Not to gain anything for ourselves.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:51</time>
<p>Not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:57</time>
<p>But just to preserve freedom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:07</time>
<p>They're not doing it for themselves, they're not doing it for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:09</time>
<p>glory, they're doing it for freedom.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:11</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:11</time>
<p>And just kind of hearing that perspective from him, again this was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:15</time>
<p>20 years after the fact, right, so 64.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:17</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:18</time>
<p>Um, was...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:20</time>
<p>really moving watching that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:22</time>
<p>And so I, again, I highly encourage you to kind of go watch our video</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:25</time>
<p>because that's a really neat piece of that interview to kind of hear</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:28</time>
<p>directly from the man himself.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:33</time>
<p>I wanted to bring up some other things about.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:36</time>
<p>Eisenhower as well He will be the 34th president of the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:40</time>
<p>united states from 1953 to 1961.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:44</time>
<p>So he's the president right after truman Right after world war ii and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:48</time>
<p>then jfk is going to be after him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:50</time>
<p>So you think we have like it's kind of like Out with the old and with</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:54</time>
<p>the new with JFK, but him and JFK actually got along very well and Eisen</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:59</time>
<p>Eisenhower is a two term president 1953 to 1961 so you think eight years</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:06</time>
<p>he's president of the United States.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:08</time>
<p>I There's a lot of opinions about Eisenhower and maybe some follies that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:13</time>
<p>he had but the two things I really remember about his presidency for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:16</time>
<p>me Is the Civil Rights of 1957, when he, uh, brought the army troops in to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:22</time>
<p>enforce the federal orders to integrate Little Rock, Kansas, or Arkansas?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:27</time>
<p>Little Rock, Arkansas.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:29</time>
<p>To me, that said a lot about the man.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:31</time>
<p>Plus, we were in Newport, Rhode Island, at the house that he was playing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>golf at when he grabbed the phone and called in the federal troops.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:40</time>
<p>Yeah, he was playing golf on the golf course when he was here and like, They're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:44</time>
<p>creating a ruckus down there and he's like, okay, I'm not dealing with this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:47</time>
<p>Federal troops are going to go in and get these kids into the school.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:49</time>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:50</time>
<p>So he's like doing this on the golf course, which he got a lot</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:52</time>
<p>of criticism for the golf and then, um, the interstate system.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:56</time>
<p>So we were on the interstate system stopping to see Eisenhower when</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:01</time>
<p>Eisenhower really is the one who started the interstate system in America.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:06</time>
<p>And it's, you know, it's officially known as the Eisenhower Internate System.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:09</time>
<p>Interstate system.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:10</time>
<p>And for him, he saw the importance of the autobahn in Germany and how</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:15</time>
<p>much it really connected the country that he came back to America and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:20</time>
<p>installed that here in our country.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:21</time>
<p>So those are the two things I really think of when I think of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
<p>the Eisenhower Presidency, the Eisenhower, uh, Gettysburg Ranch.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:29</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:29</time>
<p>So we have a video from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:30</time>
<p>there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:31</time>
<p>We do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:31</time>
<p>That was actually our first video on him, was you going out there</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:34</time>
<p>and doing that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:34</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:35</time>
<p>So, there's other things that we've kind of connected ourselves with Eisenhower.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:40</time>
<p>They've had this ranch outside of Gettysburg, because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:43</time>
<p>again, he's trained there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:44</time>
<p>He likes the area.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:46</time>
<p>It's close to DC.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:48</time>
<p>It's close enough.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
<p>And maybe as a military spouse has never had a home where she can display</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:56</time>
<p>The things they buy from different countries or the place they're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:59</time>
<p>stationed and she, we totally get that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:01</time>
<p>We totally get that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:03</time>
<p>So she asked for a place where we can have that even if we're still moving,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:07</time>
<p>because this is before he becomes president, we can come back to and I can.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:11</time>
<p>Have a house that I can decorate so 1950 they buy this ranch right</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:17</time>
<p>outside of Gettysburg I mean, it's like literally adjacent to the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:19</time>
<p>battlefield and the National Park Service takes care of it today So</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
<p>it's like you can visit Gettysburg Visitor Center and they'll say oh, this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:26</time>
<p>is Gettysburg The Eisenhower Ranch.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:29</time>
<p>It's open today, too.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:30</time>
<p>You can take a bus over from there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:32</time>
<p>So 1950 they buy this farm Gettysburg farm, uh, and it's their retreats,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:40</time>
<p>even when he's in office as president.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:43</time>
<p>So when he comes into the presidency, they will go to the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:48</time>
<p>Gettysburg farm as a retreat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:50</time>
<p>And as a result, Khrushchev will visit them there, Churchill will</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:54</time>
<p>visit them there, Nixon, his vice president visits, visits him there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
<p>Reagan visits</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:59</time>
<p>him there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
<p>There's a lot of footage of that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
<p>So I put some of that footage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:03</time>
<p>Um, I think in the.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:05</time>
<p>Gettysburg farm, you know, his, his Gettysburg estate video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:09</time>
<p>I put the video of Churchill it, there's video of him and Churchill driving</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:13</time>
<p>around on his farm, you know, showing off his cows because that's, you said</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:17</time>
<p>in the video, that's what he liked.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:18</time>
<p>He liked to do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:19</time>
<p>He liked to show people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
<p>It</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
<p>was breeding system.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:21</time>
<p>It was, it was really, really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:22</time>
<p>And I can see, especially in that area, right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:24</time>
<p>It's so open and so green.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:26</time>
<p>It's a beautiful area out there, out there in Gettysburg.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:29</time>
<p>I can see why they would want to settle down</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:30</time>
<p>there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:31</time>
<p>So kind of reminds me of the boyhood home.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:33</time>
<p>Yep.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:33</time>
<p>So here's the boyhood home that his family has lived in pretty much their whole life</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:37</time>
<p>since he's eight until his mother passes away and it goes to National Park Service.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
<p>So here's the farm, the Gettysburg farm that they will</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:45</time>
<p>live in after his presidency.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:47</time>
<p>They will go and retire to that farm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:49</time>
<p>They, that's where they spend the rest of their years until Ike dies</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:53</time>
<p>and then maybe stays there until she dies and the very next year the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:56</time>
<p>National Park Service will open it up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:57</time>
<p>Well, and I believe, and you mentioned this in the Gettysburg</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:00</time>
<p>video, that he is the reason for it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:03</time>
<p>That Camp David isn't too far from there, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:06</time>
<p>The Camp David that all the presidents kind of go to to retreat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:09</time>
<p>It's named after his grandson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:11</time>
<p>His grandson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:11</time>
<p>So it used to be called Shangri La.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:13</time>
<p>And then he called it Camp David after his grandson, and it's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:15</time>
<p>still called Camp David today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:17</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:17</time>
<p>And that's Eisenhower's grandson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
<p>And it's been, it was neat, too, that some of the comments that we got on</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:24</time>
<p>this video because some of our audience, you know, like you said, everybody's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:28</time>
<p>got different opinions, but some of our audience, you know, remember.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:32</time>
<p>him being around.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:33</time>
<p>Mm hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:33</time>
<p>And so some of them reached out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:35</time>
<p>Like I think Able, she comments on our videos all the time and she</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:38</time>
<p>talks about like, and she actually had like a personal experience</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:40</time>
<p>with him when she was a young girl.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:42</time>
<p>Mm hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:42</time>
<p>Um, and so she, they were watching some debate her and her grandmother</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:46</time>
<p>or her mother or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
<p>And the.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:48</time>
<p>She was close enough where, I guess, there were the people who were debating</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:52</time>
<p>or other people in the political parties around were kind of taken with her</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:56</time>
<p>mother, her grandmother, whoever it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:57</time>
<p>And the president, and she was close enough to the president, the president</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:00</time>
<p>kind of like said hello to her because she was the same age as, as his grandson.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:05</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:06</time>
<p>And so she, she was very polite and, you know, said hello back and he just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:09</time>
<p>kind of, you know, pat her on the head.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:11</time>
<p>And then he, she watched the proceedings like with the president,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:14</time>
<p>you know, right, right there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:14</time>
<p>So it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:15</time>
<p>And then, uh, I think Rick was someone else who comments</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:19</time>
<p>on our videos a fair amount.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:21</time>
<p>And he brought up, like you said, some of the follies in his opinion,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:25</time>
<p>some of the things they did with bringing, uh, bringing down, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:28</time>
<p>know, certain dictators around the world, right, that led to future</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:31</time>
<p>events and this, that and the other.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:32</time>
<p>So it's always going to be opinions one side or the other.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:36</time>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:37</time>
<p>Um, but even Rick said he still sees them as.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:40</time>
<p>Number three.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:41</time>
<p>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:41</time>
<p>Top three.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:42</time>
<p>I</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:42</time>
<p>mean, I think his example was the interstate highway system.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:45</time>
<p>He said he'd used President Eisenhower had used the CIA to depose Prime</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:50</time>
<p>Minister Mohamed Mozaddiq, um, to overthrow and consolidate the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:54</time>
<p>rule of Mohamed Reza Pahlavi.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:56</time>
<p>And And so bringing down that person actually kind of cleared the way for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:01</time>
<p>Ayatollah Khamenei, you know, and then the American Hostage Crisis in 1979.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:05</time>
<p>And then the Iran Revolution.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:07</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:07</time>
<p>And nobody can foresee that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:09</time>
<p>You can't foresee that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:10</time>
<p>You can't foresee that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:11</time>
<p>So, but it, everything has a, has a cause and effect.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
<p>It</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
<p>does.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:14</time>
<p>But Eisenhower was so respected, just like you said, that even JFK, Bay of Pigs is,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:21</time>
<p>he still consults with Eisenhower, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:24</time>
<p>And, cause Eisenhower is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:26</time>
<p>a military man.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:27</time>
<p>And we talked about this in my video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:29</time>
<p>Someone tries to correct me and says, don't call him General Eisenhower,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:32</time>
<p>call him President Eisenhower.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:34</time>
<p>People like to be referred to as the highest rank they ever had.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:37</time>
<p>Yes, except for Eisenhower, because Eisenhower actually asked.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:41</time>
<p>The standing president who was John F.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:43</time>
<p>Kennedy, can you, can you put my name back to General Eisenhower instead</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:48</time>
<p>of President Eisenhower, I would like to be considered a general.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:52</time>
<p>And JFK didn't understand that request, but he did it because even</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:57</time>
<p>though JFK is a military man himself.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:59</time>
<p>But he doesn't rise to the rank of five star general and you know, there are</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:03</time>
<p>five five star generals And if you can remember, you know, it's Brady, Marshall,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:07</time>
<p>Arnold, MacArthur and Eisenhower And so when you're one of five you can imagine</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
<p>you want to be remembered as that Because you're not one of five presidents, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:17</time>
<p>You're forty something now, but His statue in Abilene, Kansas is him in uniform and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:23</time>
<p>we talked a little bit about the jacket He's wearing from the army is even today</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:28</time>
<p>referred to as an Eisenhower jacket.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:31</time>
<p>Yep, the Ike jacket.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:32</time>
<p>So you don't even like I really didn't put two together when two and two</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:35</time>
<p>together when I was in the military You know grab your Eisenhower.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:38</time>
<p>Where's my Eisenhower?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:39</time>
<p>Like you just know that's what the jacket is called But I never really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:42</time>
<p>thought it's because of President Eisenhower and President Eisenhower</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:47</time>
<p>or General Eisenhower is actually buried in full military uniform.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:50</time>
<p>Yeah,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:51</time>
<p>you do, you do talk about that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:52</time>
<p>And, um, again, I think that really speaks to the man that, that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:58</time>
<p>we got to briefly visit, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:00</time>
<p>To briefly visit his, his home smack in the middle of Kansas, Abilene, Kansas.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:05</time>
<p>I just, it just kind of made me smile the whole time to see this kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:09</time>
<p>true American story of someone who came from You know, not much means, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:15</time>
<p>They moved from Texas to Kansas for whatever reason it was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:19</time>
<p>It's not like there was much there in Kansas back in the day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:21</time>
<p>There was no presidential library there because there was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:24</time>
<p>no president from there yet.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:25</time>
<p>And here he was kind of made his way up through West Point all the way</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:28</time>
<p>up to five star general eventually president and settled down after that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:32</time>
<p>So it was really, really neat to, to visit him and to, to see that and to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:37</time>
<p>kind of walk his footsteps, put that in a video and share that with everybody.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:41</time>
<p>So for those listening, thank you for listening to this podcast, our</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:44</time>
<p>first episode on our road trip series.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:46</time>
<p>We really do appreciate it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:48</time>
<p>Stick around for the next few weeks.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:49</time>
<p>Share this with your friends because we have a whole lot</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:51</time>
<p>of Western history coming up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:53</time>
<p>So we kept going west, you know, after we visited Abilene and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:57</time>
<p>we've got Buffalo Bill Cody.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:59</time>
<p>We've got Wild Bill Hickok and Deadwood and Little Bighorn, all</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:03</time>
<p>sorts of fun topics coming up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:05</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:08</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:10</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:11</time>
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<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:15</time>
<p>Every day.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:16</time>
<p>We'll talk to you next time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:17</time>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:22</time>
<p>There's the coast of Normandy, whose beaches, Gold, Juneau, Sword, Utah,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:32</time>
<p>and Omaha, now live in history.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:36</time>
<p>Along this narrow stretch of sand and sea.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:40</time>
<p>A battle was joined between the world of freedom and the world of tyranny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:46</time>
<p>For nearly five terror filled years, hundreds of millions</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:50</time>
<p>of people lived under the Nazi jackboot that had enslaved Europe.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:56</time>
<p>The Allied troops were fighting to win a foothold at first, and total victory.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:02</time>
<p>And, if possible, to carve out a dream of a world without war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:08</time>
<p>Twenty years ago, in this, our own time, the largest invasion in history</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:14</time>
<p>assaulted Hitler's European fortress.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:17</time>
<p>Beaches were beachheads then, and the world was at war.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:24</time>
<p>This is the last alerting announcement from Supreme Headquarters,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
<p>Allied Expeditionary Force.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:32</time>
<p>General Dwight D.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:33</time>
<p>Eisenhower.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:35</time>
<p>Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:41</time>
<p>You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:44</time>
<p>have striven these many months.</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>