Eisenhower ceremony in Washington to be simulcast to presidential museum in Abilene

? A ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic farewell address will be simulcast next week to an audience at his presidential center and library.

The ceremony takes place Tuesday at the Newseum in Washington. It includes a screening of the original Jan. 17, 1961, televised address, that will be simulcast to the auditorium at Eisenhower’s Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene.

A panel of journalists will discuss the legacy of the address, in which Eisenhower coined the expression “military-industrial complex” in a warning to the nation about the role of the military and defense contractors.

Eisenhower, who grew up in Abilene and went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, spent nearly two years with his staff preparing the farewell speech.