> On Jan 16, 2025, at 9:54 PM, Tom Walker via groups.io
> wrote:
>
> This is weird. The New York Times archive gives the date as October 23, 1952
> but Nixon's Checkers speech was on September 23. I don't have access to the
> NYT archives to recheck the datses.
https://www.nytimes.com/1952
This is weird. The New York Times archive gives the date as October 23, 1952
but Nixon's Checkers speech was on September 23. I don't have access to the NYT
archives to recheck the datses.
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Mark Baugher wrote, "I am having trouble finding that reference, Tom."
>
> There is in certain quarters the view that national prosperity depends on
> the production of armaments and that any reduction in arms output might
> bring on another recession. Does this mean, then that the continued
> fa
> On Jan 16, 2025, at 6:43 PM, Tom Walker via groups.io
> wrote:
>
> The funny thing about Ike's Military-Industrial Complex in his farewell
> speech is that he knew that already during his 1952 campaign and even had a
> speech prepared that he never gave. Nixon's Checkers speech upstaged i
The funny thing about Ike's Military-Industrial Complex in his farewell
speech is that he knew that already during his 1952 campaign and even had a
speech prepared that he never gave. Nixon's Checkers speech upstaged it. In
those days, the "newspapers of record" printed the transcripts of
president
There does seem to be an important difference between the Eisenhower farewell
and that by Biden. So far as I know, Eisenhower's warning did not strike a loud
chord among much of the population. To be sure, liberals have appropriated his
remark ever since.
Today, though, a good chunk of the peop
History repeats itself, "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, warned against
the dangers of what he called "the military-industrial complex" in his 1961
farewell address to the nation. On his way out of the presidenc
