eisenhower warns about military industrial complex
President Eisenhower warns of military-industrial complex. Eisenhower cautioned that the federal government’s collaboration with an alliance of military and industrial leaders, though necessary, was vulnerable to abuse of power. Ike then.
On this day in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president, delivered a farewell address in which he warned the nation about the corrupting influence of the “military-industrial...