Dwight Eisenhower

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/21/2023
  

  Despite Ike's Warning, We're Still Nailed to a Cross of Iron

  by William Astore

  At the start of his presidency, Eisenhower warned of the dangers and costs of escalating militarism. By the end of his term, he was convinced the Military-Industrial Complex had entrenched itself. It was only getting started. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Ike Would Like the New Private Space Race

  by Yanek Mieczkowski

  Wary of government spending and the entanglement of public money with private contractors, Dwight Eisenhower would find much to like in today's billionaire space race. 

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• 11/8/2020
  

  Eisenhower’s Election Day Crisis Reminds Us What Presidents Must Do

  by William Lambers

  The Suez crisis reminds us that we need presidents who seek to avoid war, even above their political ambitions. 

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• 9/20/2020
  

  Dwight Eisenhower Built up American Intelligence at a Crucial Moment

  by Steve Vogel

  Dwight Eisenhower oversaw an aggressive building of American intelligence capability toward the USSR, moving espionage to a more prominent role in Cold War foreign policy. This included ordering the CIA to tunnel into East Berlin to tap Soviet phone lines. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/4/2020
  

  The Damage Trump Has Done This Week Extends Far Beyond America’s Borders

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  Concern that Orval Faubus's defiant stand for school segregation in Arkansas would sully America's reputation abroad pushed Dwight Eisenower to deploy the National Guard in the interest of both racial justice and American leadership. Calls to deploy the military today must consider this context.

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• 5/3/2020
  

  The Second Battle of Gettysburg: Eisenhower’s Fight with the 1918 Flu Pandemic

  by Jack M. Holl

  Dwight Eisenhower played a pivotal role in protecting the troops under his command and the civilians living around Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from the 1918 influenza pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/4/2020
  

  How Eisenhower Secretly Pushed Back Against McCarthyism

  To the end of his life, David A. Nichols says, “Eisenhower never admitted that the White House was behind this.” Yet he couldn’t help but gloat a bit in private. On at least one occasion, he reportedly repeated a joke that “it’s no longer McCarthyism, it’s McCarthywasm.” 

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• 12/22/19
  

  Could Eisenhower have been impeached in 1960?

  by James Ottavio Castagnera

  Eisenhower’s approval of the U-2 incursions was motivated by genuine national security interests, albeit his subornation of perjury was primarily politically motivated.  One could contend national security and political interests more or less coincided. In Trump’s case, the two sharply diverged from the get-go.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  6/9/2019
  

  His grandfather's war: David Eisenhower on the general and D-Day

  David Eisenhower's grandfather commanded the greatest military operation of history's most terrible war.

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• 8-6-17
  

  The Food for Peace Program: Ike Started It. Trump Wants to End It.

  by William Lambers

  Feeding the hungry is essential to winning the peace. Eisenhower knew this. Trump and the Congress should too.

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• SOURCE: National Review
  3-11-14
  

  Obama: Ike Redivivus?

  by Victor Davis Hanson

  Obama admirers have created a complete distortion of “the Eisenhower era.”

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• SOURCE: AP
  9-3-13
  

  Eisenhower Memorial critic is placed on overseeing panel

  Bruce Cole, who has published at least two critical articles of the Frank Gehry design, will head up the commission.