Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance

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Always heard of this speech. Never saw it before.

[msongs]

1. we could bring back the republican-approved tax rates from the Ike era too nt

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2. Read more here!

This is the collection of his drafts:
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/farewell-address
- and a peaceful analysis here of this president as a cold warrior.:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/03/18/real-eisenhower-planning-win-nuclear-war

His best speech was this in 1953, though he never really acted on it:
"... Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. ..."

[jalan48]

3. And yet, the Defense Budget is easily passed every year with the support of both parties.

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4. In my opinion, it had no significance

Eisenhower waited until his final briefing to say anything about it. He did nothing during his eight years in power to reign it in.

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5. There's a reason some democrats call themselves Eisenhower democrats including Rachael maddow