Talk:Eisenhower's farewell address (audio transcript)

Military-industrial complex speech
This is the same speech as the Military-industrial complex speech, which is labeled "Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People" to try to clear up this kind of confusion. Perhaps this page should redirect there? Or a new name, e.g. Eisenhower's farewell address (military-industrial complex speech)? --Cce 18:09, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing this out. I never examined the texts close enough to realize this. (blush)  A simple redirect from one title to the other should be sufficient. Eclecticology 20:11, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes, I would feel embarassed, but darn it without a ton of redirects, it is an easy mistake to make. Once again we need to remember to post lots of redirects. PaulinSaudi 02:19, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)]]

What did Eisenhower mean by "four major wars among great nations"?
Given that he states one did not involve America, my guess is: 1. Russo-Japanese War 2. WWI 3. WWII 4. Korean War

The other candidates could be: Boxer Rebellion (too small scale?), Russian Civil War (part of WWI, civil war?), 1937-45 Sino-Japanese War (part of WWII?).

I suspect my list is right, but does anybody know for sure? Rwestera (talk) 06:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree on 2-4, and the Russo-Japanese War is a good guess. However, it could also be one of the following: Second Boer War (1899-1902) Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 1st Arab-Israeli War (1948) First Kashmir War (1947) First Indochina War (1945-1954) (DBL) 7 April 2016

Some discrepancies in text and audio
There are some paragraphs here that are not in the "spoken" audio archive. Perhaps the text of the speech released to the public was shortened a little? 172.163.79.92 01:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

The previously linked recording appears to omit parts of the speech. I've changed the link so that it now points to what I suspect is a complete recording.

What was the date of Eisenhower's farewell address?
january 17, 1961

Authoritative transcription
I recently put up Index:Eisenhower Farewell Address press copy.djvu. It diverges from the audio slightly, replacing "Good evening, my fellow Americans" with "My fellow Americans:", omitting the thanks to the radio and television services, swapping 'threat' and 'stress', and omitting the final words. I've also got the reading copy, which has a lot of markup, swaps 'threat' and 'stress' and omits "I look forward to it." I'm thinking probably the best thing is to make an independent transcription from the audio, proofed by the normal two editors, consulting both official transcriptions as a basis for punctuation decisions and the like. Prosody (talk) 17:02, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Went ahead and did that. Prosody (talk) 17:05, 12 May 2012 (UTC)