this video, provided by the dwight d. eisenhower library and presidential museum, also shows highlights of the parade and balls that evening. >> the honor of your presence is requested at the ceremonies for the inauguration of the president and vice president of the united states, january 21, 1957. the committee of arrangements, senator theatre francis green, senator sparkman, speaker of the hearth, house majority leader, house minority leader. ♪ special musical score by the united states marine band. captain albert albert director. music composed by technical sergeant donald hunsberger, staff arranger. ♪ in the fall of 1956, our hand cameras were allowed to briefly cover a meeting of the joint inaugural committee as they met to discuss plans for the coming inauguration. chairman of the committee, senator stiles bridget of new hampshire. speaker sam rayburn of texas. senator theodore francis green of rhode island. house majority leader john mccormick of massachusetts. senator john sparkman of alabama. house minority leade

you, dwight eisenhower, do solemnly swear. i, dwight eisenhower do swear that you will faithfully execute the office of president the united states, that i will faithfully the office of the president of the united states, and will to the best of your ability and will do the best of my ability. preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect, defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. so help me god. thank you. the looked out upon the gathering. he thought back to the year 1953 when he offered the now famous eisenhower a prayer. the first time any president had ever prefaced his inaugural address with such a prayer. give we pray the power to discern clearly right from wrong and allow all our words and act to be governed thereby and by the laws of land. a we pray that our concern shall be for all the people who regard the substation raised our calling calling. mr. mr. president. mr. justice. mr. speaker. members, my family and friends, my countrymen and the friends of my c

you, dwight eisenhower, do solemnly swear. i, dwight eisenhower do swear that you will faithfully execute the office of president the united states, that i will faithfully the office of the president of the united states, and will to the best of your ability and will do the best of my ability. preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states. preserve, protect, defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. so help me god. thank you. the looked out upon the gathering. he thought back to the year 1953 when he offered the now famous eisenhower a prayer. the first time any president had ever prefaced his inaugural address with such a prayer. give we pray the power to discern clearly right from wrong and allow all our words and act to be governed thereby and by the laws of land. a we pray that our concern shall be for all the people who regard the substation raised our calling calling. mr. mr. president. mr. justice. mr. speaker. members, my family and friends, my countrymen and the friends of my c

later said to dwight eisenhower when. dwight eisenhower asked him to go to church. he said, i will meet my maker soon enough. but they go to church. come home. winston churchill sits through a portion of a movie that is shown at the white house that night. oliver twist and gets up during it and says i need to do my homework. his homework was to finish a speech to a joint session of congress, which he delivered on december the 26th. i say that for this reason he wanted to become well known to americans that first trip. how well known. i discovered that there were two sets of twins that were named winston and franklin. there were little boys who were named winston. as a result of the attention he received during that during that period. and no fewer than 5000 cigars arrive at the white house. now, for the sake of security because they didn't know might be in them poison or you know whatever. all of them were just thrown in the incinerator and you know that killed but that was the fact of life. he received mail at the white house. one of them, one of the letters arrive

general and dwight d. eisenhower arrived in the car of army secretary kenneth royal.m marched the future general, the great italian of west point. -- great battalion of west point. ♪ the brigade of the naval academy is in review. next come the cadets of the united states coast guard academy. ♪ then is the marine corps that marched down the broad avenue, which today is the parade route for every branch of the armed services. see 82 is the flying boxcars leave one of the greatest to ever fly over the capitol. more than 700 planes in all. giant be 36 bombers pass overhead -- b-36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only military but the panorama of american life. misery has split -- has several displays. one of them, a flight drawn by missouri mules. other flutes depict the scenery of the various states. this is kentucky, the vice president's home state. the texas flute moves down the avenue. -- float moves down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington monument. the massachusetts float honoring the e

. >> now, a look at the 1953 inauguration of republican dwight eisenhower, the retired world war ii general had defeated governor adlai stevenson of illinois on january 20, an estimate of his 750,000 was greeted by temperatures in the high 40's for the celebration. president eisenhower began his remarks by reciting a prayer that he wrote himself. pres. eisenhower: my friends, before i begin the expression of those thoughts that i deem appropriate to this moment, would you permit me the privilege of uttering a little private prayer of my own. and i ask that you bow your heads. almighty god, as we stand here at this moment my future associates in the executive branch of government join me in beseeching that thou will make full and complete our dedication to the service of the people in this throng, and their fellow citizens everywhere. give us, we pray, the power to discern clearly right from wrong, and allow all our words and actions to be governed thereby, and by the laws of this land. especially we pray that our concern shall be for all the people regardless of station, race or calling. ma

in dwight eisenhower's eight years in the presidency. he never said anything as important as that warning about the military industrial complex. he never said anything that memorable. he never said anything that has lived in history, the way that line has lived in history. and he said it in the very last speech that he gave as president. decades from now, president biden's warning about the oligarchy taking shape in america and what he called the tech industrial complex might be the most remembered lines spoken by president biden. >> that's why my farewell address tonight, i want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. this is a dangerous country, and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. today, an oligarchy is taking shape in america of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy. our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. we

, that's what that was saying that the was i was answering the question that it is part of quite dwight's think about as i'm sure you also agree with send a goal and i've always coast decision to what through the troops, funds, troops in in the regions. absolutely. i agree to attend. in said it is too late. they should have gotten a long time ago because it is the wrong. why are the forces of a french country station in the of the country or somebody? yes. why? because they think that our far this, it seems that time is come. we cannot blowing a wait for that. so you're saying africa shouldn't be seen as a powerful continent that can call the shots for themselves. is it power from the continent only descriptive by the colonize us, who, se the quarter nice, the nice, you know more than wait. they think we cannot see. recently the u. s. secretary of state was lambasted for the u. s. stands when it comes to the israel from us war or genocide, a few me. what do you think of south africa coming forward and defending the people of palestine and how it was going about to do with that by even goi

and dwight goes, you what? you want to be on ship and? finally, the king george, the six intervened and says, if he's going to be the ship, i want to be on the ship, too. and so they decide that winston churchill, who finally had agreed, will not be there on d-day. and we thank you for here tonight. and a round of applause for professor robert small.i. know. discouragement fear, failure. only a few years ago these stopped the nation depression halted america. from. we groped we struggled. we found the way to better times, keep. today is a fading memory. millions of men and women have found employment and with it confidence and hope. the great works has removed a vast army from relief road. it revived lagging, restored morale and renewed in a program which covers the entire nation. ohio takes an important place place to fill the need for air transport facilities. the wpa is improving 20 airports serving ohio cities. at cleveland, 4000 men are employed in constructing largest landing mat in the world, while state's largest city. at dayton,

it quality part of the lives and then they continue one day, not today, but there was a deliberate dwight who ended up with the war. and i see it is because it was in countries with chain to put down breaks. if you know, what did they beat in that to? the medic included, he even went to prison when he had no case case. that's what this deputies, this man is. he's out to now because they decided to say, says look, you want latest data with the student or the too also to set up to this, they change the, the party in india and the 4th. so that's another part was coming. so that's usually choose the part did that to us joining breaks. that was probably, i moved to the experience of that part of the lives and it was removed in full finishing my tim was also dealing with the brakes. they put to the newspapers. so media to say china was going down, the cutting on me blah blah blah, lies and says, do that last year, must be a test of that is part of what it's is coming in to be we haven't talked about those much as a lot because that is not been the issue to talk about, but i'm just saying you de

president biden's echoing dwight eisenhower's warning about a military-industrial complex.t will certainly make news, as it is striking to hear the presidency americans face a choice now, to stand up to abuse of power or to yield to it, and at the same time wishing the new trump administration well. want to bring in face the nation moderator margaret brennan. has been a busy day. we will talk about the hostage deal but first the president's final remarks. >> margaret: stand guard was a phrase he used. this was a warning, as you said, and that really is extraordinary. it wasn't a fond farewell perhaps that we were prepared for. what the president really just rattling off as you said a number of warnings of the guardrails of democracy that he says are in peril, one of them our very industry, he said the free press is crumbling, linking social media, making that connection back to technology and lack of fact-checking. he talked about the need to hold accountable social platforms, all of it seemingly in that space framed around some political forces of the moment who are aligne

he is involved in the biggest deportation of illegal aliens since dwight eisenhower for dwight eisenhowergreat dwight eisenhower who everybody praises. they p pace pay same as that moe census president that left appoints him all the time. we haven't eisenhower type. a uniter. okay? not so much in the 1950s have walked and waited northward for jobs in california, arizona, texas and points beyond rights the christian science monitor. ike was obsessed with removing them for the rise of legal border cross-links by wet back, not my word to a current rate of more than 1 million cases has been accompanied by a curious relaxation ethical standards extending all of the way from the farmer exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the federal government. years later with was eisenhowet attorney general said in an interview with this writer, the writer of this piece sense of urgency when he took office. the breakdown of law enforcement in a very large scales of the former attorney general when i say a large scale i meet hundreds of thousands coming from mexico every year without r

dwight david eisenhower, and his beloved mamie mamie. mean. you've done a scale guarantee do solemnly swear. i am going to swear that you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states faithfully execute. the office of president of the united states. and will to the best of your ability? well, to the best of my ability. preserve, protect and defend constitutionally. united states will protect and defend the constitution of the united states. so help you god. so help me god god. vice johnson at a the speaker, nancy justice. president eisenhower. vice president. nixon. president truman. reverend. clergy. elitism. we observe today not a victory of 40, but a celebration of freedom symbolizing an end as well. a beginning signify renewal as well as change. for am fallen before you and almighty god the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly century and three quarters ago. the world very different now for me and holds the mortal hand. the power to abolish all forms human poverty at all forms of human life. and yet same

general dwight eisenhower arrives in the car. army secretary kenneth royal. behind him is the future general bismarck, gray clad battalion of point. the brigade midshipmen of the united states naval academy at annapolis passes in review. next come the cadets of the united coast guard academy. men of the marine corps, a march down the broad avenue, which today is the parade ground for branch of the armed services. the 82 of the flying boxcar lead, one of the greatest air armadas ever to fly over the capital. more than hundred planes in all. i giant b 36 bombers pass overhead. the parade includes not only the military, but is a panorama of american life. the president's home of missouri has several displays. one of them a wagon drawn by mule. other blows depict the product and of the various states. this is kentucky the vice president's home state? state, texas float moved down the avenue. the district of columbia display features reproductions of the capitol and the washington from the float honoring early american settlers who landed on the of that state. if