Ike: "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government."
MLK: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
Thirty years (give or take about 18 hours) after Eisenhower gave his farewell address, George W. Bush launched the Gulf War.