So it is President Trump. The bunting is swept up and the White House has a new First Family: and the world faces a bucketful of uncertainty. His Cabinet has already broken a record - as the richest in history. A naive observer might think that this might auger well for US industry and for the aerospace sector in particular. One of President Eisenhower's Defense Secretaries said: "What is good for General Motors is good for the United States." President Eisenhower later went on memorably to warn against the acquisition of unwarranted influence "by the military industrial complex." That complex is now one of the most impressive elements in the US national security arena and one of America's leading manufacturing sectors.
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