Word: ike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan on the telephone, the President's security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which Ike, while President, had often played the pine-studded course...
There is indeed much to admire in a man who overcame such an obvious lack of promise. As a boy in Abilene, Kans., Ike excelled at little beyond football. At West Point, from which he graduated in 1915 an unimpressive 61st in a class of 164, he excelled at little beyond football. As a young Army officer, he excelled at little beyond coaching the unit football team. World War I ended before Eisenhower could get to Europe, and in the shrunken interwar Army, he was stuck at the rank of major for 16 years. His career going nowhere, Eisenhower almost...
...result, Ike almost missed that war too. Marshall insisted that he stay in the Pentagon drafting battle plans; Eisenhower lobbied to be sent to the front. Marshall finally relented and shipped him to England in 1942 to command U.S. forces there, even though he had never seen combat. Photogenic, affable and straight-talking, he turned out to be a press agent's dream-but a disaster as a strategist. Ike was too deferential to the British in North Africa and overly cautious in the Italian campaign; he became bogged down in squabbling with General Charles de Gaulle and Admiral...
...memoirs and postwar interviews, Eisenhower was not entirely candid about the war. He blandly insisted that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had been a pleasure to work with; Ambrose describes Eisenhower as perpetually furious at the British leader's surliness and reluctance to go on the offensive. For years Ike claimed that he had been hostile to the Soviets from the first; his biographer depicts him as so eager to prove American good faith at war's end that he never challenged the idea of Soviet troops in Germany...
...year span than most of his predecessors. Some of his highest, and lowest, moments came in the 1952 presidential race, which he entered with feigned reluctance. The candidate did not have the nerve to repudiate Wisconsin's red-baiting Joseph McCarthy-even after he smeared General Marshall, Ike's patron-but otherwise took firm command of the campaign. He did, for instance, shrewdly overrule professional advice that he ignore the South and avoid making peace with his Republican rival, isolationist Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. He rejected right-wing Republican demands for a drastic escalation of the Korean...