Eisenhower: “I salute the membership of that Congress for their hard work, for their effective accomplishments.”

I find and declare that adjustments must be made in the imports of crude oil and unfinished oils for overestimates and underestimates of total demand.

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.

I feel now it would be futile for me to attempt anything else in the way of words.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.