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

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/2010/12/20/101220ta_talk_newton

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

Farewell Address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_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/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

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