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...Dwight Eisenhower in his homecoming speech...
...space, threats of missiles and atomic war, the throngs of Europe, Asia and Africa cast a durable vote for freedom and liberty. The faces were turned to the U.S. and to the man who had become the nation's image in one of the grand plebiscites of history?Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the U.S., and Man of the Year...
Against that abhorrent spectacle, and the memories of Hungary and other Communist conquests, the U.S. example of liberty under law, of self-restraint imposed by what Jefferson called "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind," of willingness to use strength to protect independence stood out as powerful assets. Dwight Eisenhower had been shaped by those principles?and in 1959, carrying a message of peace with freedom to three far continents, he represented them to the world as could no one else...
...closing out the seventh year of a presidency marked by three major illnesses, Dwight Eisenhower had never looked better. His color was high, his face firm (a slight puffiness around the eyes was the most visible sign of his age), and there was spring to his step (he sometimes startled visitors by bounding up stairs two at a time). On his trip he stood bareheaded in the Italian rain (it was just after greeting the King of Morocco in foul Washington weather that he suffered a stroke in 1957), stood for more than 100 miles while riding through the streets...
...marked last week by his Gallup rating (see chart), is a U.S. phenomenon. Anyone seeking specific reasons why the people like Ike will get answers no more complicated than "he's a good (or decent, or honest) man," or "we can trust him," or "he does his best." But Dwight Eisenhower is not that simply explained, and there are contradictions in his public image and private personality. Although he can tie words into knots ("I do say this: I may have, but I am not saying I didn't, but I don't believe I have. I do say this...