This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, January 28th, 2011.

I'm Caleb Brown.

It took a Dwight Eisenhower to warn the United States about the dangers of a powerful permanent

arms industry operating in conjunction with the

U.S. military and the U.S. Congress.

Susan Eisenhower is Chairman Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute and the granddaughter of Dwight Eisenhower.

She presented the introductory remarks at the Cato Conference, the Military Industrial Complex

at 50, assessing the meaning and impact of Eisenhower's farewell address held earlier this month.

Certain things about the speech have now become known that weren't before.

It's one of those amazing stories about how to be careful with what's in your garage.

It turns out that the son of speechwriter Malcolm Moose was moving the lawnmower to a different part of the garage and discovered five boxes

left from his father's life. His wife said, it's time to clean it up and get it out and discovered in these five boxes

were Malcolm Moose's notes about the crafting of the Farewell address and

this collection was given to the Eisenhower library.

Many of those documents were just recently released.

We know that Eisenhower had been planning

to give this speech for a long time.

It was not the afterthought that many historians had suspected it was a

very deliberate speech that Eisenhower was planning to give he played a

critical role in the crafting of this.

As a matter of fact, Malcolm Moose later told my father

that the president was the architect.

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