He , he refused to go to war . So he , he was surrounded by military industrial complex . And um and he learned very early on in an intelligence apparatus that he realized early on that the purpose of the CIA and the intelligence apparatus was to create a constant pipeline of new wars for the , for the military industrial complex the day three days before he took the oath of office , Eisenhower , who is the outgoing president gave what is probably the most important speech in American history , which was , you know , where he warned against the military industrial conflict .
So he , he was surrounded by military industrial complex . And um and he learned very early on in an intelligence apparatus that he realized early on that the purpose of the CIA and the intelligence apparatus was to create a constant pipeline of new wars for the , for the military industrial complex the day three days before he took the oath of office , Eisenhower , who is the outgoing president gave what is probably the most important speech in American history , which was , you know , where he warned against the military industrial conflict . I was at my uncle's inauguration .
And they are , you know , they , all these countries that were supposedly allied with us are now realigning with the Chinese and they're switching to their currency because the Chinese are not there to kill people , they're there , you know , to , to build roads , to build universities , to build colleges . And it turns out that people like that a lot more and , you know , we should be projecting economic power around the globe and not military power . It will make us much stronger .
And they said , uh well , as soon as they land , there's gonna be a big revolution , everybody's gonna rise up and they're gonna overthrow Castro . And he said , well , you can't use the US military . And they ended up bringing those guys over with uh United Fruit boats and , and in the middle of it , in the night , they came to him and said , they're getting wiped out on the beach and you need to send in the military and invade .
And he said , I want to take the CIA and shatter it into 1000 pieces and scatter it to the winds . And um and then , you know , for the next 1000 days of his presidency , he was at war with his military and intelligence apparatus . They tried to get him to go into Laos .
