And um and then a week , a month later , he was killed . So , um but what his view was is that he believed that the view of Americans abroad should not be , you know , a soldier with a gun . It should be a peace corps volunteer building , you know , wells and it should be USA ID helping poor people and it should be alliance for progress , building middle class .
But what do you think happens when you get into office ? Like if you're , you're , you're talking about your uncle who's assassinated and you believe the intelligence agencies were part of that ? What happens to you ?
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 . I was in Washington that day .
And he said , I'm on a total casualty list from Vietnam . And his aide came to him and said 75 Americans have died . He said that's too many .
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 .
