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	Selection of General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of Overlord Freedom Shrine Documents 1620: The Mayflower Compact 1728: Benjamin Franklin's Epitaph 1776: The Declaration of Independence 1778: Patrick Henry's Instructions to George Rogers Clark 1783: The Treaty of Paris 1787: The Northwest Ordinance 1787: The Constitution of the United States 1787: The Bill Of Rights 1789: George Washington's First Inaugural Address 1796: Washington's Farewell Address 1801: Jefferson's First Inaugural Address 1814: The Star Spangled Banner 1815: Jackson's Letter Describing the Battle of New Orleans 1823: The Monroe Doctrine 1863: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 1864: The Emancipation Proclamation 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment 1865: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address 1865: Robert E. Lee's Letter Accepting the Presidency of Washington College 1874: Susan B. Anthony 1907: Theodore Roosevelt's Letter on Cuba 1913: Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Address 1943: Selection of General Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of ‘Overlord’ 1944: McAuliffe's Christmas Message 1945: The German Instrument of Surrender 1945: Instrument of Surrender in the Pacific 1961: John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address 1963: Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech More about the Freedom Shrine From the President to Marshal Stalin The immediate appointment of General Eisenhower to command of Overlord operation has been decided upon. Roosevelt. Cairo, Dec. 7: 43 Dear Eisenhower, I thought you might like to have this as a memento. It was written very hurriedly by me as the final meeting broke up yesterday, the President signing it immediately. G.E. M.