He warned us of the military industrial complex, and, this excerpt from a letter to his brother Edgar:
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas.5 Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
But from the same letter he added this:
"A year ago last January we were in imminent danger of losing Iran, and sixty percent of the known oil reserves of the world.7 You may have forgotten this. Lots of people have. But there has been no greater threat that has in recent years overhung the free world. That threat has been largely, if not totally, removed. I could name at least a half dozen other spots of the same character."
The US and Britain overthrew Mossadegh and installed the Shah of Iran. Truman, his Democratic predecessor opposed the coup.
At least Eisenhower's election was legitimate, the last repub president we can say that about.
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