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Program 707: National Security and the Domestic Economy.

In this panel discussion, participants offer a harsh indictment of the federal preoccupation with military priorities, which, over the course of the Cold War, led the U.S. to channel more than a trillion dollars into the military-industrial complex, when domestic economic and social factors are more relevant to our national strength and security. Featuring Tom Bradley, Otis Graham, Jr., Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Seymour Melman, Ralph W. Tyler, and Willard Wirtz. Pacem in Terris IV: 6. Dec. 2, 1975. [CSDI program number 707; UCSB tape numbers A8417/R7, A8418/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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