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SUMMARY:Remembering Ike’s “Chance for Peace” Speech
DESCRIPTION:Early in his presidency\, Dwight David Eisenhower\, better know
 n as “Ike\,” delivered a speech unlike any that had been given by a U.
 S. president. Known both as the “Chance for Peace” and the “Cross of
  Iron” speech\, in it he lays out plainly the steep costs of war and the
  encroachment of military spending on domestic priorities. Speaking before
  the Newspaper Editors’ Association on April 16\, 1953\, he called on Am
 erica and the Soviet Union to take a different path\, away from the Cold w
 ar and its ensuing arms race. Otherwise\, the best we could expect was "a 
 life of perpetual fear and tension\; a burden of arms draining the wealth 
 and labor of all peoples.”  Unfortunately\, his warning was not heeded. 
 Spending today on war preparation and war making is at near record levels 
 in the United States\, consuming six out of every ten dollars in the discr
 etionary federal budget and crowding out many other areas of human securit
 y. Now\, 70 years later\, fresh ideas for turning the American public away
  from “the dread road” of militarism\, to demand a different political
  economy – one that is not based on perpetual war – are still desperat
 ely needed.  Join a conversation with Quincy Institute Senior Research Fel
 low William Hartung\, an expert on the arms industry and the U.S. military
  budget\, and Ike’s granddaughter\, Susan Eisenhower\, about what motiva
 ted Ike to make this speech\, why his words went unheeded\, how he felt ab
 out that missed opportunity\, and what we might do today to get on a diffe
 rent path.  
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