Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech to the nation.

I heard part of this on NOW, as part of their interview with Eugene Jarecki (maker of the film Why We Fight). Apparently this is where the idea of the military-industrial complex (and the term itself, for that matter) comes from. Added to which, I’m coming to have more and more respect for Eisenhower all the time. If Republicans were more like him and less like Nixon, this would be a very different country.