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18th December 2009, 01:36:43

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Eisenhower’s address to the joint session of the Indian Parliament:

I come here representing a nation that wants not an acre of another people’s land; that seeks no control of another people’s government; that pursues no program of expansion in commerce or politics or power of any sort at another people’s expense.

Aaaah, of course!

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  • tommym

    Well I guess that nation that Eisenhower was referring to, representing, is not the nation we live in now, sad to say.

    He also warned us about the dangers of the “Military Industrial Complex” – he may have even made up that term.

    So was he the last Idealist to rule America, or was he just naive?