Original program from the 1953 Inaugural Festival held as part of the first term inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United States. Twenty page program that includes list of performers that included Abbott and Costello, Edgar Bergen, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Helen Hayes, Ethel Merman, Ed Sullivan, Water Winchell and Guy Lombardo.
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Eisenhower used two Bibles: 1) the Bible used by George Washington in 1789 (belonging to St. John's Masonic Lodge No. 1), opened to II Chronicles 7:14; and 2) his own personal "West Point Bible," opened to Psalm 33:12.