In this photo released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, second from right, talks with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, second left, as they attend a military graduation ceremony with Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, left, and Chief of Staff Sami Anan, right, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Egypt?s President Mohammed Morsi hailed the Egyptian army and its commanders at a time the newly elected Islamist president and the military council, which took power after ouster of Hosni Mubarak last year, are in mid of power struggle. (AP Photo/Sheriff Abd El Minoem, Egyptian Presidency)
In this photo released by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, second from right, talks with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, second left, as they attend a military graduation ceremony with Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri, left, and Chief of Staff Sami Anan, right, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Egypt?s President Mohammed Morsi hailed the Egyptian army and its commanders at a time the newly elected Islamist president and the military council, which took power after ouster of Hosni Mubarak last year, are in mid of power struggle. (AP Photo/Sheriff Abd El Minoem, Egyptian Presidency)
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's new president says the country's 1952 revolution that overthrew the monarchy and started decades of army rule failed to bring about democracy.
Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first civilian and Islamist president, spoke Sunday in a televised address on the eve of the coup's 60th anniversary.
His message emphasized his struggle to wrest authority from the country's military, which has been at the center of power since the coup.
Morsi says in the last 30 years, fraud and corruption derailed the country's ambitions. That was a reference to ousted President Hosni Mubarak's reign.
He said last year's uprising that overthrew Mubarak has corrected the path.
The country's powerful generals released their own statement online Sunday, congratulating the people for the 1952 revolution, also known as the Free Officers Coup.
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