Three days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's final mission

Finding Ike

The visit

The Setting. The measure of Ike ; Ike in command ; A nonpolitician in the political arena ; Ike's hidden card.

The Speech. Farewell in black and white ; Intimacy and interdependence ; The hostile landscape ; Dust to dust ; The military-industrial complex.

The Final Mission. An unknowable successor ; The day before ; The passage ; A spring day at Camp David

Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation (January 17, 1961)

The Last Word: 2017.