Bravo Lakesman.
49 years ago today, that red roasted hoor Oswald murdered the greatest Irishman who ever lived…JFK. Bow your heads and reflect on what might have been.
Dwight D Eisenhower
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now 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 Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
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Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite
The man couldnt even bend a fucking golf Club to his will, let alone be in the running for greatest US President
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The tree was named after President Eisenhower, an Augusta National member, hit the tree while playing golf so many times that, at a 1956 club meeting, he proposed that it be cut down.[6][/URL][URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Tree#cite_note-owen-7’][7][/URL][URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Tree#cite_note-8’][8][/URL] Not wanting to offend the president, the club’s chairman, [URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Roberts’]Clifford Roberts[/URL], immediately adjourned the meeting rather than reject the request.[URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Tree#cite_note-owen-7’][7][/URL] The tree was linked to Eisenhower ever since, when Ike ran for President there were bumper-stickers that read “[URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hogan’]Ben Hogan[/URL] For President. If We’re Going To Have A Golfer–Let’s Have A Good One!”[URL=‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Tree#cite_note-lederer-9’][9]