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SAT Reading: Recognizing President Eisenhower's Thoughts on the Military's Purpose 3 Views
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When is a strong military necessary? Eisenhower gives us his opinion in this SAT Reading video.
Transcript
- 00:03
all right we're keeping on keeping on with Ike and the question is according
- 00:07
to the facts a strong military is necessary in order to what Eisenhower [text on screen]
- 00:11
makes no bones about his position when he says that the US military should be [picture of president]
- 00:16
mighty ready for instant action why why does he say this well as he puts it so [writing on chalkboard]
- 00:21
that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction for
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- 00:27
Eisenhower the best military is the one you don't have to use because it's so [military cars]
- 00:32
big that everyone's afraid of it Eisenhower doesn't mention peace talks
- 00:36
like where did that come from and in his opinion the military should be a [people shaking hands]
- 00:39
deterrent to international conflicts although he mentions ongoing issues and
- 00:43
he's talking about the threat of problems rather than actual conflicts
- 00:47
the US was involved in so I get rid of that potential answer Eisenhower's [soldiers firing arms]
- 00:51
probably psyched that the military growth didn't create jobs but he doesn't
- 00:54
cite it as the motivating factor to you know go build guns so if that's it it's [text on screen]
- 00:59
a it's prevent enemies from starting military conflicts with the US we've
- 01:03
heard of too big to fail well we wanted to be too big to mess with [Uncle Sam in boxing gloves]
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