Usually hardly anybody will remember the content of an outgoing president’s speech. Slightly different – the case of President Eisenhower’s farewell speech. His speech is still remembered up to this day, particularly certain passages in the painstakingly prepared and many times changed speech. And in light of the present international political fires the Biden administration seems to ignite all over the world right now, many do remember the man that has been called by his critics as a “do nothing president” and what he said when he left office. His actual “do nothing” legacy origins from his successful attempt to keep world peace in times of heightened international crises. In his outgoing speech on January 17, 1961 to the nation he warned about the danger of the military–industrial complex, which he describes as the relationship between a country’s military and the defence industry …
