Heather Cox Richardson 3/10/26
EISENHOWER GOT IT
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” The sweat of workers, the
genius of scientists, and the hopes of children would be better spent
on schools, hospitals, roads, and homes than on armaments. World
peace could be achieved, Eisenhower said, “not by weapons of war but
by wheat and by cotton, by milk and by wool, by meat and by timber
and by rice.
...Eisenhower recognized that economically dispossessed people were
natural targets for political and religious extremists. They could easily
be manipulated by a strong leader to back a cause—any cause—that
promised to resurrect a world in which they had enjoyed prosperity
and cultural significance.
...Promoting economic prosperity and better standards of living at
home and around the world was not just about pecce or justice,
Eisenhower thought; it was about saving humankind.
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Heather Cox Richardson 3/10/26
EISENHOWER GOT IT