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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Interestingly, Eisenhower in his original draft of the speech called it the "military-industrial-congressional complex" but eventually scratched out "congressional". It would have been even more prescient had he left that in, not that it would have made any difference.