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President Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953 determined to be more aggressive in checking the spread of Communism. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summed up this approach when he told LIFE magazine in 1956 that "if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost." Still Eisenhower and Dulles backed away when Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest later that year to crush the Hungarian uprising. Eisenhower contributed another idea when he invoked the domino theory in 1954 to justify U.S. economic aid to South Viet Nam. The notion that the fall of one nation to Communist...
Stassen tried again four years later but managed to go to the convention with only 19 delegates. He soon threw his support behind Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ike remembered and later made Stassen chairman of the Foreign Operations Administration. In 1955 he moved up to the cabinet level post of special assistant for disarmament. A hawk who had advocated the use of nuclear weapons against China during the Korean War but a strong advocate of negotiation, he was in charge formulating the "Open Skies" proposal and negotiating an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. But he embarrassed Eisenhower...
...your reference to the Presidential Performance Study, I notice that you omitted Dwight Eisenhower from the list of "above-average" Presidents. As director of that survey of historians, I know that Eisenhower came out eleventh while Kennedy ranked 13th...
Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to get the U.S. prepared for war form a bright page in his history, but at the time they were bitterly opposed by many Americans who did not understand the approaching catastrophe. Dwight Eisenhower sent U-2 planes over the Soviet Union because he realized our first line of defense was information. When a U-2 was shot down in 1960, exposing the gigantic spy scheme, he was bitterly condemned by some for unnecessary provocation. The longer view now hails his foresight and courage...
Also contributing to the find score were Rob Strauss with two goals and senior Dwight Rouse who notched the Crimson's final tally Although he only learned to swim as a freshman and has played sparingly in his first year as a water polo player, Rouse has helped the team all year out of the pool...