Eisenhower: “The bill directs the payment of sums aggregating $276,568 to twenty-eight individuals in settlement of claims for…”

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We have struggled for 8 years to get real reform in the farm laws.

We shall eventually have a world in which all men are brothers, and in which the outstretched hand is not that of a tyrant, but the hand of friendship.

I worked among you for more than 4 years.