Wor-Dwight Eisenhower-The Grass Roots Boy

Youth for Eisenhower presents the grassroots boy. We live today in an age of danger and great uncertainty. Leadership we can trust, this is our greatest need. We in the United States face a grave responsibility.

The fate of millions all over the earth may rest on our choice of a leader for our country. Therefore in this hour it is well to remember the words of a great American. Prosperity will not come from the federal government.

It will come when it comes from the grassroots, from whence it must always come. What are the grassroots of America? What kind of American leaders brings from them? First, turn back to June 1944. British countryside teeming with troops.

Motokan boys bumper to bumper, funneling into ports of Embarkish. Long day passed, the night went by, the next dawn came June 5th and 4am.

It was then a man from the Kansas prairie, the Supreme Allied Commander stepped out to the dim... Decision! Back to the waiting stance he scoped. Alright, the General Eisenhower, we move! The invasion was on, D.D. had come!

Who is this man from Kansas who tested the win that day? Who is this leader in time of crisis? From the grass roots of America, from the very heart of our vast country, from a proud old heritage he comes.

This is his story, the story of the grass root boy. Cold March day in 1878, a long train rolled westward. Away from the hills of Pennsylvania, away from the land of their pilgrim forebears, By covered wagon from the Susquehanna, the river brethren were moving to Kansas.

westward the pioneers. Out at the end of the old Chisholm Trail at last they saw it. A valley in the cup of the hills where the green grass rolled like the waves of the sea and the earth went up to meet the sky. Their own promised land. They named the place from the Gospel, Abilene. Abilene the grassy plain. Abilene, Kansas grew and