President Dwight Eisenhower and The Domino Theory.

Jim Patterson with a portrait of President Dwight Eisenhower, Capitol Hill Club, Washington DC. 


On April 7, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower held a news conference in which he spoke of the importance of containing the spread of communism in Indochina, saying, "You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly." (This became known as the "domino theory," although Eisenhower did not use that term.)

Jim Patterson note: I highly recommend Dr. Yanek Mieczkowski's excellent book: "

Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige (Cornell University Press).