in 1961 he passed power into a young democrat john. kennedy. three days in january looks at the high stakes presidential transition between i and j and k. the subject matter, the timing of this couldn t be better, tell us what we will learn from the book? thanks, three and a half years in the making and i started to think about, you know, covering politics, you always are dealing in sound bites and little snippeds and tweets this time around. but to look back at history and really dig in, i started to find at the eisenhower library a lot of nuggets about this time and i foe questioned on the farewell address, delivered january 17th, 1961, three days before kennedy s inauguration and looked at that and kind of
entire program. so he wants to keep it intact, not how. second, this morning, narrating what the paper called obama s path from critic to overseer of spying. but when it comes to the larger question of security versus privacy, there s no doubt that the president and the white house have evolved. as yahoo! news olivier reports, january 17th, 1961, president dwight eisenhower, five-star general, shocked americans with this dire warning in his farewell address as president. in the counsels of government, we must guard against the activation of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. the potential or the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. white house officials say the timing of the president s speech today is simply a coincidence, but it s a fitting one. for the past five years, the