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 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 .
And he understood that . And two months later , the military and intelligence came to him and said , we got uh we got to invade Cuba and he was like , I'm not going to Cuba and I'm not gonna let the military . And they said , well , we got all these Cubans trained and they're gonna go attack Castro .
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 .
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 .
