[Dick Bachert]

ACHTUNG: I DID NOT...REPEAT...DID NOT WRITE PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S FAREWELL SPEECH! . But I could have and probably even have done a better job.

[khelus]

Thanks for the post;

Here’s the link to the entire speech:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

Eisenhower made excellent points about 1. the military establishment and arms industry, and 2. technological inventions

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. “

[humblegunner]

So, Dick...
You’re kind of like those folks who claim to be Napoleon
or George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Except YOU wrote
Eisenhower’s farewell speech.
Are there any other historical events for which you are responsible?

Did you write the Declaration of Independence?

The Magna Carta?

How about the Bible, Dick?
Didja write that too?