The Rise and Fall of the Neocons

John Kennedy's American University speech is one of the greatest speeches most inspiring speeches by any president at any time. Eisenhower had also made enormous strides in the friending Khrushchev and they had several summits which were productive. In today's dollars that defense budget that Eisenhower said was adequate was 400 billion our defense budget in the same purchasing power dollars today is 800 billion going on 900 billion in 1961.