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The Eisenhower Doctrine by President Dwight D. Eisenhower Digital History ID 4305
President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a special message to Congress on the situation in the Middle East.
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Engines of Our Ingenuity

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Terman and Silcon Valley Digital History ID 4486
My wife and I often drove down from Berkeley to her parents' house on the coast during the late 1950s. The road passed through the hot, sleepy valley around San Jose. The valley had a new IBM plant and a small state university. Stanford lay off to the right. The yellow hills on either side shimmered in the summer heat. It was a land of wine and artichokes. Today that valley is built up, hill to hill. We call it Silicon Valley. It seems changed beyond all recognition. Yet that name was starting to fit it even then. To see why, let's meet Frederick Terman, who joined Stanford in 1925.
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