{"id":8368,"date":"2011-01-20T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2011-01-20T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:39:33","slug":"points-to-ponder-from-ike%e2%80%99s-farewell-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8368\/points-to-ponder-from-ike%e2%80%99s-farewell-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Points to Ponder From Ike\u2019s Farewell Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>, Leslie Gelb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2011-01-17\/dwight-eisenhowers-farewell-address-why-it-matters-more-than-jfks-inaugural\/?cid=bsa:moreauthor1\" target=\"_blank\">discusses<\/a> the other January 1961 presidential speech that should get more attention from Americans today. \u00a0It was delivered by outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Gelbian nuggets:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\u00a0\u00a0 Put the national interest ahead of politics<\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0\u00a0 There are no quick fixes to crises<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0\u00a0 Balance is the best strategy<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0\u00a0 Beware of spending beyond our means<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0\u00a0 Guard against the power of special interests<\/p>\n<p>The fifth point is best remembered as the warning against the military-industrial complex.\u00a0 The fourth point seems especially pertinent today with a $14 trillion debt that will surely \u201cmortgage the material assets of our grandchildren (while) risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entirety of Ike\u2019s farewell address can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/mcadams.posc.mu.edu\/ike.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Daily Beast, Leslie Gelb discusses the other January 1961 presidential speech that should get more attention from Americans today. \u00a0It was delivered by outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower. Here are the Gelbian nuggets: (1)\u00a0\u00a0 Put the national interest ahead of politics (2)\u00a0\u00a0 There are no quick fixes to crises (3)\u00a0\u00a0 Balance is the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,1416,1577,2305,2306,61,71],"class_list":["post-8368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-debt","tag-deficits","tag-dwight-eisenhower","tag-leslie-gelb","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-spending","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8371,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}