Farewell address
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A farewell address is a speech given by a political figure upon the occasion of retirement. In U.S. history, the first was George Washington's farewell to his troops in 1783. The most influential of all such speeches was George Washington's Farewell Address of 1796, in which he advised against war, sectionalism, secession, political partnership,and entangling alliances. Douglas MacArthur gave a powerful farewell speech to Congress in 1951, ending by saying "old soldiers never die, they just fade away." Dwight D. Eisenhower's final address in 1961 warned of the rising influence of the "military-industrial complex." Richard Nixon's farewell to his White House staff upon his resignation asked them never to become embittered by what happened around them.
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