Senator Edmund S. Muskie states that the Great Depression and World War II made Americans financially and militarily insecure, which shaped policy leading to the Cold War and the Vietnam war and created a military budget so large as to be intimidating both to Americans and to foreign powers. This is followed by a question and answer session.
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