Inaugural Video Vault: Truman and Eisenhower

President-elects welcomed to Washington

The start of the Cold War.  The military industrial complex.  The golden age of television. 

Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower were the 33rd and 34th presidents of the United States, leading the nation out of WWII and into the age of America as superpower.

Click the clips on the left to take a look back at their inaugural addresses. 

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