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25.000
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January, 1961.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Farewell Address to the Nation.
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This conjunction of an immense military
establishment and arms industry is new...
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...in the American experience.
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The total influence...
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...economic, political, even spiritual...
:01:05
...is felt in every city, every Statehouse,
every government office.
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We must guard against the acquisition...
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...of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought...
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...by the military-industrial complex.
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We must never let the weight
of this combination...
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...endanger our liberties
or democratic processes.
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November, 1960.
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Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy
of Massachusetts...
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...wins one of the narrowest election
victories in American history...
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...over Vice President Richard Nixon
by a little more than 100,000 votes.
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Alongside his beautiful and elegant wife,
Jacqueline Bouvier...
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...Kennedy is the symbol
of the new freedom of the 1960s...
:01:47
...signifying change and upheaval
to the American public.
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"All men are created equal."
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Every degree of mind and spirit
that I possess will be devoted...
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...to the cause of freedom
around the world.
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Today, the proudest boast is: