I think of this speech often. In many ways it was Eisenhower repeating himself, his "Chance for Peace" speech came in 1953, 8 years before this. Amazing and consistent bookends.https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1085394737023148035 …
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Colm MacCárthaigh Retweeted Michael Beschloss
I think of this speech often. In many ways it was Eisenhower repeating himself, his "Chance for Peace" speech came in 1953, 8 years before this. Amazing and consistent bookends.https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1085394737023148035 …
Colm MacCárthaigh added,
1953: "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."
1961: "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist ...
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."
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