4sight Health September 27, 2022
After leading the Allies to victory in World War II and serving eight years as president, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his last speech to the American people as a public servant on January 17, 1961. To emphasize its importance, Eisenhower spoke to a nationally televised audience from the White House Broadcast Room. Delivered three days before John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. Eisenhower’s “Farewell Address” is among the most influential presidential speeches in American history. In it, America’s legendary general warned the nation about a new and pervasive threat to their liberties. He named it the “Military-Industrial Complex.”
Sixty-plus years later, Americans confront another industrial complex that threatens our pocketbooks, diminishes our health and compromises our well-being. Like the Military-Industrial Complex does...