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...President lays down his burden of responsibility with the record wholly summed up on one side of the ledger. Dwight Eisenhower's accomplishments in eight years of peace and prosperity were a strong defense of freedom abroad and a positive push to free enterprise at home. But there were also debits...
...FARM PROBLEM. When Harry Truman left office, the cost of price supports and food storage was averaging $1.5 billion a year; when Dwight Eisenhower retired to private life, the cost had soared to a disastrous $9 billion annually. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture was right, but he was never able to translate it into a workable farm program. Democratic Congresses, unwilling to give Benson what he wanted and unable to produce something better of their own, share the blame that Ike was more than willing to put on them...
Perhaps most of all, Dwight Eisenhower during his two terms in office failed to recognize the vital importance of day-by-day politics in converting deeply felt governmental principle into reality. "The President," a White House aide once said, "hates and despises cheap political maneuvers." So he did-and so he should have. But Ike often carried his feelings so far as to remain above the political battles that are the fabric of positive governmental action. The Democratic comeback in Congress in 1954 and the Democratic landslide in the 1958 elections were among the results of his neglect of practical...
Thus, although history may rate Dwight Eisenhower highly for his achievements, it must also take into account his failures-not the least of which was his inability to convert his immense personal popularity into vote-getting appeal for his party and its principles...
...order passed in Washington, the U.S. press turned from New Frontier sentinel duty awhile to pay parting respects to Dwight Eisenhower...