When the man who planned the invasion of Nazi-held Europe and led the allies to victory over Hitler's 3rd Reich writes you a cease and desist letter, he's not kidding.
Bob ap Bob learn your history you fool. Hitler was fighting against the international banking system and against communism Even Patton said “we destroyed the wrong enemy”. Too bad he wasn’t president instead of Eisenhower. We wouldn’t be suffering from inflation.
@@lilgangstacj Well for one. he *Assumed* I liked what Obama did when he was in office. And continued to push his trump rhetoric from there. That would be a strawman.
@@lilgangstacj the majority of democrats and practically all republicans are to the right of eisenhower on economics and foreign policy. Outside of trump's diplomacy with north korea, he continued the washington status quo when it comes to foreign policy, as with many other issues.
The great thing about Ike is there was so little editorializing and showy rhetoric. He was just a clean, logical, fair thinker. It's exactly what America needed in the 50's after World War II. A president who put steady pragmatism in front of impassioned idealogy. A very solid centrist president.
@@Liam-ps2px He was certainly one of history's great leaders. It was no accident he was chosen to lead the western allies on D-Day. He managed to lead the armies not only of America but other nations as well. Even then he was as much a diplomat as a soldier
@Not4nought Watch the video again. Little Rock High School in Arkansas as what Ike said is already planning to desegregate in 1955. That is two years before the Little Rock Crisis. The racist here re those angry mobs blocking those nine black Americans to attend that school.
@@crossmodulation9730 he sent troops not to enforce diversity, but to enforce the constitution, there is diference between the forcing the diversity and enforcing the most important law in USA
@LovePeaceSerbia you're right, did nothing to make the USA better... just commanded the greatest sea invasion in all history to liberate Western Europe, oversaw the greatest economic growth in US history, secured funding to complete the Interstates, and steadily guided the country through intense Cold War and racial tension. Lame
A rare breed. Eisenhower when leaving office warned about bloating the military industrial complex but we have trump for 4 years talking about increasing the already massive budget of the US military
This man may be the most significant public servant in the history of human existence, both as supreme commander of the allied forces and as the POTUS.
This was the most forcible intervention by a President to secure the rights of blacks since General Grant let the Army repress the original KKK. Yet the liberals questioned his motives.
The older I get and the more my study of mid-20th century history gets divorced from all the, "Pop History," that got me burnt out on it (I also grew up in the shadow of Fort Polk and am the 8th generation of my family to call the area home, so you could say I spent a little time around WW2 fanatics and veterans) and treat it the same way I do most historical eras I get into (i.e. look into the primary sources and tell people to take their academic takes and shove 'em until after I've read the primary sources) more and more I am convinced that Eisenhower might actually be not just one of the greatest men to ever live but also one of the greatest American generals and presidents all in one. Not even just that: he is also, simultaneously, the most fucking underrated and for no real reason whatsoever. I suspect it's because in an era of flashy personalities he gets forgotten as a staunch pragmatist. But Eisenhower got results. Eisenhower lead the largest military coalition in world history in one of the most decisive conflicts and lead it to victory at that.
Ha! Had you been alive back then, you wolud have done what all Democrats back then did. Vote for the racist egghead Stephenson, and called Eisenhauer every name in the book.
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Watching this ought to be compulsory today. He explains what he has done and why he has done it, within the framework of the Constitution. And his background gave everything he said weight and credibility.
I agree but unfortunately they would be to radical for both the right and left he was extremely progressive and extremely conservative people like that get booed or called Rihno’s when in fact he would be a hero
@@xshxr I'd cut FDR. There's a lot of debate as to whether his actions actually alleviated the Great Depression, and there are some implications that his directives may have actually prolonged it.
@@zolafuckass8606 Nah, if it wasn’t for the New deal the Depression would have been worse imo. Though he was a significant racist compared to others (with the camps for the Japanese people).
Libertate Veritas i bet you didn’t even know that Malcom X was a Separationist. So was Marcus Garvey and Booker T Washington. All supported Black Nationalism. Check out Steve Biko from SA as well. Way better than Mandela.
Libertate Veritas Dude, Segregation is not the same as Separation. I know you are smart enough to figure that one out. Here ill give you another 2 minutes of Malcom at the bottom of this comment. As for Mao, he was following the Communist Manifesto to the tee. Communism is an extreme ideology in itself. “Plow the fields” “abolish all private property”(both direct quotes from the Manifesto). Exactly what Mao did so yes he was embodying state Communism and all the authoritarianism that comes with it. As for Radicals, they are the only people who are confident and willing to ACT. I bet you didn’t even watch the whole 2 minutes if that video, you probably think that you are “too educated” to be lowered to the level of a “radical” like Malcom X. It is funny how tou still defend what you learned in Public School. Try some HL Mencken: “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” Bet you haven’t listened to more than 5 minutes of Malcom X speaking. Separation vs segregation (i know, politics is nuanced and not everybody can handle it, but i will stay here and continue to educate you. I won’t give up on you) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OADCQPPsHGc.html
Libertate Veritas “why replace an unjust problem with the same thing?” Why integrate into an unjust system? Just separate and form/secure your own Nation. Integration is what has caused our problems (as well as immigration and forced multiculturalism). It is you that cannot see the problems and discourse that arises from forcing races to be “equal”. Haha the hypocrisy in that “philosophy”... wow. Forcing people by law to be equal? Blasphemy! See, it is your argument that falls through. U got owned (don’t worry i do this every single day instead of wasting my time taking pointless Humanities classes and wondering how i am going to pay off my student debt)
That's because he wasn't a politician. He was a military leader. Who up until 1938 fully believed he would retire in 1940 with a decent pension after 25 years of honorable but quiet service.
@@Bestillivoze at Biden is way better at speaking than Trump sure he Slurs and has a hiccup every now and then but at least he doesn’t glorify himself or go off on tangents.
@@capnmaddox6941 That was the old GOP before the southerners and religious loons took over the party, after LBJ pushed through the Civil Rights bills in 1964-65.
@@wands2457 You're right racism has no place in politics and law. That's why President Trump stands with Americans of all races. His HUD Secretary is Black. He also got permanent funding for traditionally black colleges. These colleges had to keep coming back for funding every two years. President Trump found out about this and made the funding permanent. Trump meets with pastors, is called pro-black by pastor from Ohio: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PV4HHUTFDx4.html I'm half Argentine and 100% support the wall on the southern border. It never had anything to do with race.
@@wands2457 Those are false claims. He has never done anything to encourage white supremacy. He also does not feel that most Americans are bigots. All that stuff is fake news.
@@wands2457 Well it appears you've lost the argument due to not being able to produce actual evidence to back up your claims. Have a good one. I recommend opening up your mind to see the truth and go to rantingly.com to get actual news. Turn off the TV News, it does nothing for you.
W and S Dude, come on man. A personal insult is refuge to a lost argument. Calling someone a “blind ass” just prove you had emotion get to you before evidence and facts. Maybe @Sound Flames has a valid point, Trump did do a lot for minority communities, especially Black Americans.
It's so refreshing listening to a President who is able to formulate a complete thought. He plainly laid out his reasoning and how it was supported by the law.
My translation: "We're not sending in Federal Troops to run your school and police departments. We're sending them in to stop you people from impeding the freedom of a class of citizens while you people get it together and figure it out."
As the years pass, more and more historians and biographers recognize Ike was a great president. He continues to climb the list of "10 Best US Presidents." Sadly, we may never see his like again. His generation is gone forever.
General Eisenhower was one HELL of a good President. We need solid leadership like this again. Someone who doesn't follow party lines and realizes that they work for the people, not vice-versa
@@wildfire9280 That’s a great point-the ‘50’s was a time when both parties offered pretty much the same, ideologically speaking. You had Dixiecrats but also liberal Democrats like JFK; and you’d have liberal Republicans but also conservative ones like Nixon. Social and economic views also had less of a correlation; for example, the Democrats were usually socially conservative but supportive of government regulations when it came to economic issues. Meanwhile the Republicans were pro-business but also had a stronger track record on civil rights.
Agreed, parties are just a distraction to help divide people over largely unimportant talking points compared to the holistic issues we have these days. People spend all their time arguing about elections when the powers at the helm are behind the curtain, regardless of their PR representative. Just my 2 cents.
What you see in this speech which resulted in an implementation of policy, is truly greatness. We as a nation do put the "rule of law" above ideology and the cult of personality. Thank you RU-vid from the bottom of my heart.
General Eisenhower was one of the few presidents who regardless if you are a Republican or a Democrat, you respect him. Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and Ike.
If Ike was alive today and did call for the military stop rioters and looters, since local law enforcement can't do that themselves, the media would call him a dictator and a Facist
@@lilmolens5160 Do you know what all areas of America were like? Or all the people that lived during that time? I've met a number of people who were either from that generation or knew members of that generation well (although most were outside the South), and I can tell you for a fact that racism wasn't everywhere and a sizable number of people did not hold those views by the mid to late 50s (heck, there was even a 1,000-member organization of ladies in Arkansas that resisted the governor's crap and demanded the schools in Little Rock integrate according to what I've been reading).
@@paullytle1904 What about the 1,000+ white women in Little Rock who banded together and demanded the governor stop his resistance to desegregation? Don't they deserve to be remembered?
Even Ike was treated with disdain by many Democratic reporters. Yet I guess that if he did not actually write this speech it reflects his other speeches. He was a very good writer. No orator, he could make a very forcible and eloquent speech on occasion.
Brings a tear to my eyes to here Ike speak on such matters, and using his presidential power to end the segregation it’s beautiful yet saddening to see what politics have become to of today . The standards, morality, it’s all just evil and corrupt.
Today's politicians could learn a lot from this man . He would be horrified at the moral , social and economic decline not to mention the increasing power of the military industrial complex and a demagogue like Trump
Counter Revolutionary Capitalist Trump does not have glorious revolutionary God mocking humanist socialist people's Party Approved Correct Thinking and Speech. Still kicking butt on The Party.
This was during the Cold War, we were the most reliant on the Industrial Complex at that time, and we should still be to counter the Communist Chinese threat. He would be appalled by Trump's incompetence in Foreign Policy.
Selfish hearts of men and women, and pride. They arrogantly think they are better than everyone else around (I'm the smartest, I'm the greatest, I'm the most virtuous, etc.) and project that on society. It's never gone away, just taken on different forms in today's world. "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered" -Proverbs 28:26
So organized, such a clear and compelling presentation, so Presidential and...he is defending the courts and standing up for the decisions thereof. It is refreshing to hear this voice of sanity in our insane world.
@@RI-zn3ju I found the Russian/Chinese misinformer. How else to explain you lying about Iraq's WMDs, encouraging getting out of Afghanistan, while encouraging us to attack two of the largest oil producers in the world? Russia would love oil prices to go up! Your entire comment serves our enemies, not America.
A truly great President. This was back in the days of the United States being at its peak greatness. Sad to see those days are now long gone with leaders like Bush, Obama and Trump.
Peak greatness - mobs of people were losing their minds bc a handful of black teenagers were trying to attend the local high school. McCarthyism was destroying the lives of normal Americans, specifically Jews and Progressives. Lynching was still a common practice in the south. We and the USSR were rapidly expanding our nuclear arsenal, et cetera. Progress Breeds Happiness.
One day history will give President Eisenhower credit for his contributions to the cause of civil rights beyond any political motives. He completed the desegregation of the Armed forces. He was not perfect in dealing with civil rights but, given the climate of that time he was brave. I don't think many Presidents would have had the guts to send in the National Guard, but he truly acted on and respected the laws of our country.
@@sisenor4091 Really? I didn't bother to myself look because I have never heard of any. I suppose you found them in his home state right. I should have looked for myself but I am so lost in this world right now so I would kindly ask you to post what you found on this comment board. Have a nice day, brother!
Kennedy resumed President Eisenhowers lead on this matter. This is a time and a situation the federal government did exactly the right thing. My father was among the federal soldiers Kennedy deployed to enforce Washington D. C. hard line on this. I recall Daddy telling my brothers and I..... had they encountered aggressive resistance and were attacked....they were green lighted to start "cracking" heads the rough way
I love Eisenhower, he was a great man doing the right thing. That said, it's funny he chose to start this address by evoking the name of 3 Presidents, 2 of which were perhaps the most overtly racist men to ever hold the office.
I think that was the point. To show that the office of the president is beyond personal feelings and ideals that the rift thing and law of the land should be upheld and enforced.
What I love about the manner in which President Eisenhower delivered his speech, is that it is clearly delivered by a man who understands perfectly how to act under orders, without any rebellion. To him, he was fulfilling the order in a submissive manner that is required by law, completely free from any person notion he may have had. Like a good soldier.
@@crixxxxxxxxx the MSM is making a lot of money with the orange man bad narrative that is feeding the delusions of the sheep...so fck off you are nothing but a follower and brainwashed.
al hiddell The only brainwashed people are the shit for brains simpletons stupid enough to trust a ridiculous, corrupt failure like Donald Trump to be their president. How astoundingly clueless and naive do you have to be to put any trust in such a clownish asshole? His presidency is a laughable trainwreck, and the country is thankfully abandoning him.
In these all in or all out times of hype the slightest sign of racism he would be considered a closet racist. He said "the house of Wilson" and Princeton has disavowed Woodrow Wilson as a racist. He didn't immediately send troops to Little Rock because he didn't completely believe in desegregation. “He wasn't that enthusiastic about the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision and equivocated in public,” said John A. Kirk, a history professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author of Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis. Eisenhower was more concerned with how the US would look from a Cold War perspective, and that his orders to the governor to protect their entrance were disobeyed.
@@Melinda8162 No there isn't. We have seen that the last two weeks with cops taking a knee and National Guard members putting down their shields while rioting, looting and burning is the order of the day. Then they take over downtown Seattle. If Trump won't do anything, what do you think Biden would do? I shudder at the thought.
One of those soldiers was my dad.a 28 yr old paratrooper who at the time could have cared less but this changed him immensely. After little rock daddy supported civil rights 100% he raised us to respect everyone no matter their color.
@@rockyracoon3233 Character really wasn't Nixon's strong side in my eyes. Without getting too much into modern politics, I think he sort of resembles Trump in multiple ways, where he ends up shooting himself in the foot in situation where he could diverge people's hate by staying composed
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He was a general, a leader of men. He was a brilliant ambassador - think of his ability to keep together the grand alliance that destroyed Hitler. But he was also ruthlessly determined, and cool headed. He was a gentleman and a warrior. The only great leader to see the inside of a concentration camp, and to realise that Stalin was a bad as Hitler. He protected the free world when it was most at risk. And he did it with calm self assuredness. He was magnanimous, JFK called him 'General' and asked his advice over Cuba when he became president, despite being on opposite sides of politics. His secret was no secret at all - he was just a morally true man, who did what he believed was right. That didn't mean he was always right. But it did mean he believed in what he was trying to do, and people knew he was sincere. And he hated authoritarianism with a passion. The 20th century threw up some loathesome pieces of human garbage - Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao to name a few. We had Roosevelt, Churchill and Eisenhower. We were lucky.
I remember how hated he was in Alabama. That hatred paled into insignificance after Kennedy was elected. Both these men were saying "enough is enough".
Who’s the greatest President of all time? Al Bundy: Eisenhower! Who’s the greatest American leader of all time? Al Bundy: Eisenhower! If you had the chance to leave Peggy, who would you date? Al Bundy: Eisenhower!
To me one major difference say between the near aristocratic foreign (i.e. British) generals and Eisenhower was that he, as a kid, growing up on the plains was acquainted with manual work and understood it's shaping influence regarding on the ground, real world decisions and consequences.
The best thing about this speech is that you have no idea what his personal views are of integration. He is stoically representing his office and providing leadership and guidance to the nation. Everything these days is emotional proclamation and activism… we need leadership like this again. Without strong leadership, the citizens get lost.
Eisenhower opposed the court's Brown v. Board decision, and Truman's integrating of the armed forces. If he had shown strong leadership on those and other civil rights issues, the mob would not have felt so empowered in the first place.
I agree with your position. I mean he wouldn't even end this nonsense of segregation during the U.S. Army. I could have simply ordered that all replacement would be assigned to wherever they are needed.
Eisenhower was a great President for his time and an inspiring down to earth person. The good part was that integration of schools took place but 60 years on the American public school system is ranked 27 th in the world, way down from much poorer countries such as Lithuania and Romania. A shambles. Rich Americans of all races send their kids to private schools thus furthering a new segregation. Figure that one out.
Segregation between people of different incomes is bound to happen. It’s just a problem between the haves and the haves not. And that’s good, as it drives competition that would lift more and more people out of poverty if they put in the effort. The difference between that segregation and the segregation of the past was that, as you said yourself, that people of all races can be rich. Back in the day, they don’t care if you’re rich or not, blacks and whites must be separate as if you’re sorting out laundry. Also, you seem to blame segregation alone for America’s falling ranking in education. You seem to ignore that many of those school systems that are better than America’s are also very much integrated themselves and didn’t segregate based on race. There are at least many other factors to blame before pointing out how integration was a failure. After all, it’s been 60 or so years since schools are being ordered to integrate. Unless you’re a third world country, there’s no reason for you to suck for 60 years.
What Biden mess are you talking about? I don't want you to compare these two men. One man tried to overthrow the U.S. Government while refusing to assure the peaceful transition of power. Trump did everything in his power to divide the country.
@@ericsniper9843 Biden is just as divisive as Trump, it's just that you're most likely coming from the opposite side of our already rigidly divided political spectrum.
"Disorderly mobs have deliberately prevented the carrying out of proper orders from the federal court" "To aid in the execution of federal law." "Our personal opinions about the decision on the matter of inforcement. The responsibility and authority of the supreme court to interpret the constitution are very clear."
This comment section is just fantastic. No reasonable conversation, false comparisons, sham facts, blatant demagoguery, and a few legitimate Nazis. Ahhh RU-vid.
At about 7.4 "the President and executive branch will- Support and Ensure-the carrying out of the decision of the Supreme Court", I did not hear politics or party. Just simply clear responsibility, regardless of agreement or disagreement. I Like Ike
it's incredible that our president has to articulate himself like this because of the situation about racism in about how people wouldn't want to comply with just being human
