Eisenhower About “Making a Sucker Out of Uncle Sam”

QUOTE

We are carrying practically the whole weight of the strategic deterrent force, also conducting space activities, and atomic programs. We paid for most of the infrastructure, and maintain large air and naval forces as well as six divisions. He thinks the Europeans are close to "making a sucker out of Uncle Sam"; so long as they could prove a need for emergency help, that was one thing. But that time has passed.

source = "Memorandum of Conference With President Eisenhower"/ 11.04.1959 / drafted by General Andrew Goodpaster

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