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A draft of the farewell address, showing handwritten edits. Despite his military background and being the only general to be elected president in the 20th century, he warned the nation with regard to the corrupting influence of what he describes as the "military-industrial complex".
The first 1961 State of the Union Address was delivered in written format [1] by outgoing president Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, on Thursday, January 12, 1961, to the 87th United States Congress. [2] It was Eisenhower's ninth and final State of the Union Address.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address As delivered transcript and complete audio from AmericanRhetoric.com; William McGaffin and Erwin Knoll, The military–industrial complex, An analysis of the phenomenon written in 1969; The Cost of War & Today's Military Industrial Complex, National Public Radio, January 8, 2003.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term military-industrial complex for his final address as president of the United States in order to caution about the potential social and political effects of a large peacetime arms industry. Used in: Military-industrial complex; Cold War (1953–1962) Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
By Eloise Lee On this day 68 years ago, nearly 3 million Allied troops readied themselves for one of the greatest military operations of world history. D-Day. And the push that lead to Hitler's ...
Despite his military background, he believed in avoiding war and that the Cold War was a largely political and economic rather than military crisis. Despite Eisenhower's serious misgivings about the rise of corporate power and the military-industrial complex, which he warned against in his 1960 farewell address, Pickett suggests that Eisenhower ...