signed
12/9/66
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
12/9/66. At home, he advises Americans to cultivate “self-dependence, self-reliance, moral and physical courage and patriotism”, and spurn materialism He demands honesty, hated hypocrisy, and would not tolerate lip service: “I do not mean to preach about them; rather to practice them”The American generation in leadership roles in the 1950s and 1960s had lived through the turmoil and vast destruction of World War I, but been told the sacrifices were worth it, as the war would make the world safe for American-style democracy. Just a decade after that war ended, the nation was plunged into the Great Depression, when a quarter of the people were unemployed (truncated)