Ike's Warning Reverberates Today

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Edward Ward Wenk Jr.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0317-28.htm

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Eisenhower acted with massive funds for science and technology. Without the customary fiscal restraints, technical resources of industry and the universities were invited to hustle their ideas to the Pentagon, to the Atomic Energy Commission and to a fledgling NASA.

The president also established a new post of science adviser as a mechanism to pick the nation's brains directly and without bureaucratic delays. By presidential order of executive privilege, however, Congress was denied access through hearings on future plans.

Pained by that exclusion, Congress created its own post of science adviser. I was the first incumbent.

Not surprising, members of Congress asked me to interpret Eisenhower's puzzling characterization of key actors on the national security stage. I could guess, but I sought a more authentic source, the president's anonymous speechwriter who drafted that enigmatic expression.
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[Redstone]

1. They sure don't make Republicans like Ike anymore.

Good thing he's dead, because seeing the Repubs today would kill him.

Redstone

[Demeter]

2. Bah! The GOP NeoCons would Assassinate Ike First.