General Resources

• America Votes (Duke University)
• American Presidents: Life Portraits (C-SPAN)
• Presidential Audio Files Sound samples from the MSU Vincent Voice Library
• ALLPolitics Ad Archive The use of TV advertising in modern times at the CNN AllPolitics site.
• CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates, 1952-1992
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)
• Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present (American Memory Project, Library of Congress)
• First Ladies
• Politics, Presidents, Congress, and Foreign Policy - ALIC (Archives Library Information Center)
• The Program in Presidential Rhetoric (Texas A&M)
• The Political Graveyard
• US Presidential Election Maps 1860-1996
• Executive Order Main Table of Contents
• Executive Orders (National Archives)
• Presidential Vetoes, 1789-1996: A Summary Overview
• Congressional Overrides of Presidential Vetoes
• Presidential Inaugurations American Memory. Library of Congress

Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961

• Dwight D. Eisenhower (C-SPANN)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
• Eisenhower Center
• Dwight David Eisenhower (IPL POTUS)
• Main Events of the Eisenhower Presidency, 1953-61 Timeline of major events.
• Executive Orders - Dwight D. Eisenhower (NARA)
• Grolier's Online: The American Presidency
• Video Archive

Primary Source Material

• First Inaugural Address Jan. 20, 1953 [Bartleby] [PBS]
• Chance for Peace, April 16, 1953 [Texas A&M]
• Atoms for Peace address, Dec. 8, 1953 [Texas A&M]
• Second Inaugural Address, Jan. 21, 1957 [Bartleby]
• Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961 [PBS]
• State of the Union Address, 1954
• State of the Union Address, 1955
• State of the Union Address, 1956
• State of the Union Address, 1957
• State of the Union Address, 1958
• State of the Union Address, 1959
• Edward T. Folliard "Ike Takes Helm in a 'Time of Tempest'; Says 'We Are Linked to All Free Peoples'" in Washington Post January 21, 1953

  Nixon's Checkers Speech, 1952

  U-2 Incident

  Court Decision: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

Richard M. Nixon

• Nixon Audio Archive Audio clips of Nixon's speeches including the Checkers speech, the Kitchen Debate, and Watergate speeches.
• Richard Nixon Library
• Watergate 25 (Washington Post)
• Richard Milhous Nixon (IPL POTUS)
• Kitchen Debate (Cold War Policies)
• Richard M. Nixon: The Watergate Tapes

Video Files

• Adlai Stevenson: Music Man (1.5 MB)
• Dwight Eisenhower: The Man From Abilene (2 MB)
• 1952, 'Eisenhower Answers America' (832 K)
• Nixon's 1952 Checkers speech

Sound Files

• US Presidents of the 20th Century (Vincent Voice Library)
• Eisenhower 1953 Inaugural Address (RealAudio Vincent Voice Library)
• Campaign Stump Speech 1952 (2:48 min.: [AU] or [WAV]) (Grolier)

  Real Audio Interviews (PBS):

  John D. Eisenhower, on Kay Summersby

  Stephen Ambrose, on The Paris Summit

  Fred Greenstein, on Civil Rights and Eisenhower's Plan

John F. Kennedy

• Kennedy Presidential Library
• Speeches of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Internet Public Library)