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three and a half million men and women are
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directly engaged in the defense establishment.
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We annually spend on military security alone
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January, 1961.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation.
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Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment
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and arms industry is new in the American experience.
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The total influence--economic, political, even spiritual
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is felt in every city, every statehouse, every government office.
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We must guard against the acquisition
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of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought ,
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by the military- industrial complex.