that speech was delivered by president dwight d. eisenhower. three days before the ends of his second term. eisenhower used the term military industrial complex to describe the union between lawmakers, defense contractors, and the u.s. military. the republican president argued this coalition could gain so much power that it would affecteddively take control of american democracy. the year eisenhower delivered this address, 1961, the total defense budget was $226 million. today the total defense budget is $891 billion. some of these costs include, item, tomahawk missile, $1.5 million permission ill. f-22 fighter jet, $150 million per jet. item, literal combat ship, $362 million per ship. item, stealth bomber jet, $2.1 billion per jet. question, is the military industrial complex in for a trim? do you believe? >> i think it has to be because the scale of the debt facing america means that there will be cuts right across the board, and any way they're the debate going on right now about the effectiveness of the military power. if you look at what

and john quoted dwight d. eisenhower, but earlier on far before president eisenhower john quincy adams had it right. he was the sixth president of the united states. he was speaking then as secretary of state. july 4th to the congress, 1821. we could become the dictators of the world, we would destroy the republic in the process. we give and urge liberty and support everywhere, we fight only for our own because the process of military projection concentrates all power in the president. due process, the most important cornerstone of civilization, is trash. it's the presumption of guilt before innocence, people, you know, like today where we have the chairman of the homeland security committee just totally distraught that a jury in new york city may have acquitted somebody accused of a terrorism crime. and he said, that's a miscarriage of justice, you know? in our, you know, post-9/11 we don't permit not guilty verdicts if you're accused of terrorism. that's how far we are into dishonoring due process of law. so what's to

students read dwight eisenhower's inspirational d-day speech to the troops. >> every soldier, sailor, pilot, paratreerp involved in the allied invasion of normandy got a copy of this. >> but they also see the handwritten speech eisenhower would have delivered if d-day failed. the mystery it solved, why does it bear the wrong date? >> how are you going to be feeling the night before the invasion takes place? you're going to be what? >> nervous. >> next he turns to some of his famous props to show how eisenhower dealt with the stress of war. >> dwight eisenhower drank each day 40 cups of black coffee and smoked four packs of unfiltered camels a day. >> it's this kind of interactive teaching that earned him many awards over the years, the national teach hall of fame honor is just the latest. he also gives his students a dloons live history through an applied history course. through it, students intern at historic sites across the washington area. he turns to the words of one of his historic heroes, dr. king to restore the passion. >> she talks about wanting to be remembered for living a

it is the greatest recent president, republican president, dwight d. eisenhowered, about the vast military- industrial complex brought tremendous amount of money, as i said, is a reciprocal thing. it helps us in a way because it provides jobs for some of these states that produce these weapons. host: certainly some of the dollars go in those ways, and when we were there, we had conversations with pakistani air force and pakistani army about the to combat extremism there -- about the things they needed to, extremism there. we need to make sure, too, that it is in the interest of the united states and that we're not giving away advanced hardware that we have developed. they advanced predator grounds, not acceptable to us with the technology in those drones. there has been back-and-forth about how we accomplish that, but those things have been done brought some of those dollars go into those areas of military hardware, but it is done and at what a way to make sure that military hardware can be used to the pakistanis' benefit, but also to make sure that if it falls i