Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. GEN. EISENHOWER'S ARRIVAL AND PRESS CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. GEN. EISENHOWER'S ARRIVAL AND PRESS CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C

1952

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Seq: Gen and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower step from transport plane which taxis to halt before large crowd including photographers and other members of the press. Eisenhower is greeted by Secy Defense Robert A. Lovett, Secy Army Frank Pace Jr and others including Gen Omar Bradley and Gen J. Lawton Collins. Lovett poses with the Eisenhowers as photogs direct. Eisenhower expresses his joy at being home again. Seq: Int, Standing at lectern during press conference, Eisenhower replies to (inaudible) queries on a variety of subjects. He recalls the "..bitter days.." of pleading before Congress against the reduction of WW II forces. He scores the lack of a clear cut, long range military program which would not fluctuate with the varying degrees of cold war hysteria. He speaks on the military situation in the Middle East; reveals his recovery from a streptococcus infection; refuses to make a blanket endorsement of our foreign commitments. He says that we should appraise foreign relations in terms of enlightened self-interest; that we must use our analytical thought for a plan to further collective security of a free world.

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Collins, J. Lawton (Joseph Lawton), 1896-1987

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Joseph Lawton Collins (1896-1987) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his graduation from West Point in 1917, he commissioned with the infantry. He served with the American forces in Germany from 1919 to 1921. Between 1921 and 1931, he taught at West Point and the Infantry School. He graduated from Command and General Staff School in 1933 and the Army Industrial College in 1937. Upon graduation from the Army War College in 1938, he became an instructor there. In 1941, he left to serve as c...

Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Lovett, Robert A. (Robert Abercrombie), 1895-1986

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