Radio Smart Talk for Monday, February 7: Fifty years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address. In it, he warned of the growing “military-industrial complex,” a need for balance in government, to plan for the future, and to be wary of deficit spending...

 On Tuesday, Gettysburg College will host a discussion about Eisenhower’s address. Among the panelists: President Eisenhower’s granddaughter. Susan Eisenhower has served on NASA’s Advisory Council, and on the National Academy of Sciences’ standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control. She’s a member of a Department of Energy Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, which is tasked with developing a long-term solution for safely managing nuclear waste. And she’s Chair Emeritus of the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College.

We’ll talk with Susan Eisenhower about a number of issues, including her grandfather’s “military industrial complex” speech, and nuclear arms control and energy.

 Listen to the program:

 Watch President Eisenhower's 1961 farewell speech