Eisenhower’s Relevance to Peace, War, and Liberty Today
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🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Eisenhower's presidency still has enduring lessons for prospects for peace and liberty today. Chris Preble, author of the forthcoming book, Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy, offers his thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, April 11th, 2019. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Kila Brown. |
| 0:08.0 | As we mark the 50th anniversary of the death of President Eisenhower, |
| 0:12.0 | it's worth taking a moment to consider his |
| 0:13.9 | presidency his most famous and enduring speech and the lessons for governing today. |
| 0:19.0 | Cato Vice President Chris Preble comments. |
| 0:21.4 | President Eisenhower was President He became president in 1953. |
| 0:34.0 | Yes. |
| 0:35.0 | On his way out of office in 1961, he gave a speech that is long remembered as a warning about this growing tent the |
| 0:47.8 | sort of tentacle relationship between military leaders and the private sector. |
| 0:55.0 | Correct. |
| 0:56.0 | And if there's one thing you can say about somebody like Dwight Eisenhower |
| 1:00.0 | is that he understood government bureaucracy, he understood government bureaucracy. |
| 1:03.0 | He understood school bureaucracy. |
| 1:05.0 | He understood bureaucracies very well and having served eight years as president, |
| 1:10.0 | it seemed like he was saying to the world, |
| 1:13.5 | hey, there's nothing else I can do about this problem. |
| 1:16.5 | That's right. |
| 1:17.1 | I'm leaving, but you all need to take this real seriously. |
| 1:20.7 | That's right. |
| 1:21.1 | I mean, the speech is a lament, right? |
| 1:24.8 | This was an admission on Eisenhower's part that he had basically tried and failed. |
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