Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000
Military-Industrial Man
By Lars-Erik Nelson
Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics
by Robert G. Kaufman
University of Washington Press, 548 pp., $30.00
In the final draft of his farewell address as president, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the growing in-fluence of 'the military-industrial-congressional complex.' At the last minute, he struck out 'congressional.' It was not fitting, he thought, for a president to criticize Congress. It may also have seemed to him particularly ungracious, since he was about to be succeeded by one of the loudest congressional drumbeaters for higher military spending, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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