* 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

* 1961 – In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.

After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg were the location where U. S. President John F. Kennedy held his famous speech on 26 June 1963, proclaiming " Ich bin ein Berliner ".

In 1953 and 1961, Congress received both a written State of the Union message from the outgoing president and a separate State of the Union speech by the incoming president.

In a speech to Congress on 25 May 1961, Kennedy spoke of his deep respect for the United States Army Special Forces.

In his famous 1961 " Water Tower " speech, he said:

In 1961, physicist John Larry Kelly, Jr and colleague Louis Gerstman used an IBM 704 computer to synthesize speech, an event among the most prominent in the history of Bell Labs.

Lewis gave his radio speech responding to the 1961 census, which showed a decrease in the number of Welsh speakers from 36 % in 1931 to 26 %, out of a population of about 2. 5 million.

Future President Dwight Eisenhower, who played against him that season, recalled of Thorpe in a 1961 speech:

In 1961, US President John F. Kennedy gave a speech before the UN General Assembly where he announced the US " intention to challenge the Soviet Union, not to an arms race, but to a peace race-to advance together step by step, stage by stage, until general and complete disarmament has been achieved.

* Hofstadter, Robert, " Robert Hofstadter's speech at the Nobel Banquet ", The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, December 10, 1961.

The Wasteland Speech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.

In 1961, regarding the economic mechanism of neo-colonial control, in the speech Cuba: Historical Exception or Vanguard in the Anti-colonial Struggle ?, the Cuban revolutionary Ché Guevara said:

According to the British historian Hugh Thomas in his magnum opus The Spanish Civil War ( 1961 ), the evening began with an impassioned speech by the Falangist writer José María Pemán.

In 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech titled " If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins " to the organization's convention in Bal Harbour, Florida.

In 1961, the reconstruction of the upper castle and a high tower construction were completed ; however, the works came to a halt as a result of Nikita Khrushchev's speech of December 21, 1960.

After the Dutch announced the formation of a Nieuw Guinea Raad on April 1961, with the intention of creating an independent Papuan state, Sukarno declared military confrontation in his Tri Komando Rakjat ( TRIKORA ) speech in Yogyakarta, on 19 December 1961.

After a 1961 Temple speech about nuclear apocalypse, and a January 1962 Esquire Magazine article listing Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as a safe place in a nuclear war, Jones traveled with his family to the Brazilian city with the idea of setting up a new Temple location.

In his speech to the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2009, Colonel Gaddafi called upon the Libyan president of UNGA, Ali Treki, to institute a UN investigation into the assassinations of Congolese prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, who was overthrown in 1960 and murdered the following year, and of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.

After a disabling stroke on December 19, 1961, at the age of 73, Kennedy lost all power of speech, but remained mentally intact.

In turn, those bureaus were trying to fulfill the vision of computing as a utility, which was first proposed by John McCarthy in a speech at MIT in 1961.

On 16 June 2002, Dame Silvia made a speech at the Annual General Meeting of Save The Children's New Zealand branch, in which she criticised section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, which allowed parents to use " reasonable force " to discipline their children.

* Beth Holloway ( b. 1961 ), American speech pathologist

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

In 1961, Eisenhower became the first U. S. president to be constitutionally prevented from running for re-election to the office, having served the maximum two terms allowed.

On January 17, 1961, Eisenhower gave his final televised Address to the Nation from the Oval Office.

Eisenhower with John F. Kennedy, April 22, 1961

* 1961 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the " military-industrial complex ".

* President Dwight D. Eisenhower ( United States ) until 1961

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

As Chief Justice, Warren swore in President Dwight D Eisenhower in his second inauguration in 1957 and his successor John F Kennedy in 1961.

As Chief Justice, he swore in Presidents Eisenhower ( in 1957 ), Kennedy ( in 1961 ), Johnson ( in 1965 ) and Nixon ( in 1969 ).

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower retired in 1961 it was nearly universal, but the president himself had not been confronted with a dial tone.

The hypothesized relationship of networking between people wielding such power is known as the military-industrial complex and was briefly described by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 17 January 1961.

* Papers of Abbott Washburn ( Special Assistant to the Director of the USIA, 1953 & Deputy Directior of the USIA, 1953 – 1961 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

In response to the Soviet air bridge, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had his officials prompt Thailand to supply six AT-6 Texans to the RLAF as a light strike capability on 9 January 1961.

Just before he left office in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument after Congress had declined to act on related national historical park legislation.

The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, though the term is applicable to any country with a similarly developed infrastructure.

President of the United States ( and former General of the Army ) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:

* Dwight David Eisenhower, Farewell Address On the military-industrial complex and the government-universities collusion-17 January 1961

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

Politically, the era was dominated by presidents, Democrats Harry Truman ( 1945 – 53 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1961 – 63 ) and Lyndon Johnson ( 1963 – 69 ), and Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1953 – 61 ).

Between 1954 and 1961, Eisenhower dispatched large sums of economic and military aid and 695 military advisers to South Vietnam to stabilize the pro-western government under attack by insurgents.

The term is analogous to the military – industrial complex that President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of in his famous 1961 farewell address.

In 1956, he was re-appointed by President Eisenhower, and again in 1961 by President Kennedy.