"Ike urged Americans to pay attention to America; JFK said it was time for new American leadership in the world. Ike’s rhetoric was plain and simple, studded with common sense and references to 'balance.' JFK’s rhetoric was soaring, captivating, and inspirational to the new generation just coming to power, a generation seeking new international mountains to climb. JFK was about to lead his country into new, greater, more trying and expensive levels of involvement in the world; Ike was telling the country not to forget about the American economy and democracy that underpinned all else."
Leslie Gelb at The Daily Beast compares Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address with John Kennedy's inaugural address.
And in Slate, David Greenberg argues that Americans have misinterpreted Eisenhower's famous speech.
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