"It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war–until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea."
— Korean War

January 1, 1970

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "I Shall Go to Korea", October 25, 1952; as qtd. on Whitehouse.gov and in Martin J. Medhurst, "Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign: Eisenhower's "I Shall Go to Korea" Speech", Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 2000), pp. 464.