Dwight Eisenhower's speech - there were actually 29 drafts of his Military Industrial Complex Speech


Written by Donna Hancock
Date: 05-29-2013
Subject: Military Industrial Complex
 "Ike's Speech" (an interesting article which notes that there were at least 29 drafts of Eisenhower's Farewell Address (Jan 17, 1961), as confirmed by the archives of Malcolm Moos, one of the speechwriters): http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2010/1...ta_talk_newton

Malcolm Moos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Moos

Farewell Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenho...rewell_address


Eisenhower's brother Milton, who worked with him on early drafts of the Farewell Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Eisenhower

Origins of the phrase "Military-Industrial-Complex": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militar...strial_complex

Another of Eisenhower speechwriter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_E._Williams

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/135443-2013-05-29-dwight-eisenhowers-speech-there-were-actually-29-drafts-of-his.htm?From=News


I was very young when he was President, I know nothing about him whether he was good or bad. But for some reason, I remember his famous slogan "I LIKE IKE".