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okay moving on more of Ike there we go the speaker includes lines from 45 to 47

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we'll highlight it for you there so you don't do any work American makers of [text on screen]

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plowshares quoted with time and as required and exports as well primarily

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do what I sing huh interesting all right so we have to think about all this in

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context American makers of plowshares that's like farming equipment hood with

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timing is required make swords as well right so instead of a plow you're making

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a sword like how do you allocate your resources that's kind of what he's

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asking here so Eisenhower knows that the times they are a-changin he starts [picture of president]

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paragraph six by explaining how things used to be when he talks about American [text on screen]

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makers of plowshares well he's saying then when he talks about plowshares that

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the u.s. used to get by without a large part of society in government devoted to [people in city]

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national defense like we were more peaceniks kind of sort of but we had big [peace signs on US map]

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oceans of protecting us Ike later says that Americans can't risk the old system

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anymore of just not engaging militarily I guess so he doesn't want to go back to [writing on chalkboard]

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it he does later mention how many people the industry employs but this is more of

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a side benefit in his book not the reason for the spending he's also not [money piling up]

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warning how bad the old system was by saying that peacetime industries could

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handle the military needs with time and as required he's saying that well it was [text on screen]

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sufficient at the time back then it was just fine so it's a insert here is right

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there explain that the old system of armaments manufacturer was suitable at [civil war re-enactment]

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the time why he brought in the whole plowshares

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