Military–industrial complex

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This was in Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation, in 1960. and I remember it well.

And I wondered where he got such a brilliant idea - since he was hardly a brilliant person himself - he could hardly compose a coherent English sentence.

This article shows it was a common idea at the time - and his speech writers included it, to make him seem intelligent also.

They certainly fooled me.