(04.02 MC)January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s…
(04.02 MC)January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address”Throughout America’s adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations…Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method…We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations…”The American support of governments in Vietnam, Indonesia, and South Korea that were resisting communism illustrated the globalizing core value of