Eisenhower urges harmony, cites Soviet threat in State of the Union address 60 years ago this hour (Jan 6 1955)

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(Thursday, January 6, 1955, 12:30 p.m. EST; during the Cold War) — In his annual State of the Union address, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower laid his legislative program before the new Democratic-controlled Congress today with a plea for harmony and a solemn warning that this is a year of trial in the world’s wavering course toward durable peace or atomic holocaust.