Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953. Office of the Federal Register, 1960, p. 307.
The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.
This quotation Illustrates a conflation of American national security and economics.
This was a fundamental principle of the Republican party in the middle of the 20th century. However, by the end of that century, Republican doctrine, with the support of the Military-Industrial Complex {641114}, had changed to place defense spending as the highest priority—so much so that the huge deficits created by the massive defense spending weakened the financial solvency that Eisenhower had warned that was more fundamental.
Different presidents have had different points of view on the issue of government spending for defense and national security. At the other end of the spectrum was Ronald Regan whose huge increase in defense spending far exceeded the resources we had to pay for them so he increased the national debt by more than all previous administrations put together. Although the burden of that debt was with us for years, slowing the economy, many historians credit this policy with hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union which could not keep up the arms race in the Cold War.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower GCB OM GCS CCLH KC NPk was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
