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Box FFF, Indio, California
February 7, 1966
Dear Mr. Karson
Thank you for your complimentary remarks on the TV address I
made just as I left the Presidency. I am glad to know that your
organization is devoting time and energy to studying the ramifica-
tions of what I then called the "military-industrial complex."
The influence of tremendous munitions expenditures is felt in every
phase of our national life -- millions today owe their prosperity,
indeed their livelihood to this kind of production. Communities,
and manufacturers, compete for new munitions facilities or contracts;
to obtain such favorable situations political influence is sought and
often given. Manifestly all of us should be alert to the possibility
that munitions production could become so important that whole
communities will look upon it as a way of life; we may forget that
these expenditures are merely for the purpose of defending ourselves
and what we now have.
Our struggle against world Communism involves military, economic
and spiritual factors. Each is equally important and it is up to us
to see that we maintain the necessary strength in each and the proper
balance among the three.
Sincerely,
THE
UNITED
JUDING
Mr. Stanley G. Karson, Chairman
Special Committee on Military-Industrial Complex
American Veterans Committee
1830 Jefferson Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20036
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