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Trying to establish those who opposed Dwight Eisenhower's, John F. Kennedy's, Richard Nixon's and Ronald Reagan's negotiations with the enemy as the same people - the anti-engagers - is ludicrous. Everything a President does is opposed by someone for some reason. The larger point is that we must negotiate through strength, a fact Obama seems not to understand. Neither did Jimmy Carter. Obama's willingness to withdraw from Iraq while on the brink of victory and to talk without condition to the perpetrators of much of the violence is foolhardy and dangerous. Mark Shreeve, DANDRIDGE, TENN...
Having a President in your Parish can go to a pastor's head, as Dwight Eisenhower learned soon after he took office. Ike, though personally devout, wasn't much of a churchgoer, but he didn't think people would want a President who just played golf on Sundays. So he became the first President to be baptized in office and joined National Presbyterian. The minister had promised there would be no publicity, but as Eisenhower wrote angrily in his diary, "we were scarcely home before the fact was being publicized, by the pastor, to the hilt...
Known as "mad dog" by his fans, the 6-ft. 4-in., 250-lb. defensive end Dwight White was an instrumental, if often unsung, contributor to the "Steel Curtain" defense throughout his nine-year career, taking the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories and appearing in two Pro Bowls. A fiercely dedicated athlete, White proved his mettle in 1975 when he emerged from a serious bout of pneumonia to help his team defeat the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX. As Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said in a statement, "Dwight White was one of the greatest players to ever...
...anti-engagers denounced Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy for engaging Nikita Khrushchev over disarmament. They yanked their support for Richard Nixon after he opened up talks with China. They even slammed the hallowed Ronald Reagan for negotiating with Mikhail Gorbachev. Thankfully, U.S. Presidents have generally had the good sense to assess each potential diplomatic foray on the basis of whether it might make Americans more secure. If the foot-stomping conservatives had been heeded at these critical junctures, they would have prevented negotiations that reduced tension, enhanced cooperation and may have prevented bloodshed...
Senator Barack Obama's campaign is considering picking a military man as a running mate to compensate for Obama's limited national-security experience. But it's far from clear that military experience raises the prospects for a successful presidency. While Dwight D. Eisenhower won pretty good White House grades following his 43-year Army career, Jimmy Carter (seven years in the Navy) didn't do so well. Old soldiers still grimace when recalling the military highlight of that presidency: 1980's failed mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. The Desert One fiasco killed eight U.S. service members, doomed...