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Dwight Eisenhower

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.” 

  • 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.

  • SOURCE: National Review
    3-11-14

    Obama: Ike Redivivus?

    by Victor Davis Hanson

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