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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (24082)8/2/2003 1:04:59 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation.

There was a small military presence in Vietnam during the Eisenhower years. Having been both general and president, he had a singular insight into the military as well as the government. How would he have dealt with Vietnam given his great insight? From a brief bio: Before he left office in January 1961, for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential dangers to our way of life. He concluded with a prayer for peace "in the goodness of time." Both themes remained timely and urgent when he died, after a long illness, on March 28, 1969.
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