ABSTRACT
President Dwight D.Eisenhower commented in his 1961 Farewell Address that a “conjunction of a vast military establishment” was being setup in the United States, which was unique in the American experience. According to Eisenhower, “The total influenceeconomic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government.” Eisenhower believed that we had to guard against this trend. The domination of the nation’s scholars by federal project allocations, and the funding associated with them, he warned, threatened the survival of American democracy.1
