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...phrase was coined by Malcolm Moos, then a White House speechwriter and now president of the University of Minnesota. Eisenhower had asked for ideas for a farewell address on significant issues, and Moos, mindful of Ike's growing concern about a "garrison state," submitted this...
There was more dignity than drama in Ike's final journey-and that is precisely how he wanted it. He had approved the arrangements as long ago as 1966, and they were carried out with military precision. At the beginning of the week, his casket was removed from Washington's National Cathedral. One witness of the transfer was Omar Bradley, 76, the last of the five-star generals, who saluted his wartime colleague with a sadly trembling hand. After the casket was taken to a spot near the Washington Monument, it was placed atop the horse-drawn...
...that went beyond particular successes or failures. The people acquiesced in his decisions, and on the big issues of war and peace, Eisenhower justified their faith. Though his Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon was refined and precise...
...final judgment on any President lies with history-and historians. Few scholars would care today to deliver a definitive verdict on Dwight Eisenhower, but many have formed tentative opinions. Asked by TIME to assess Ike as President, general and citizen, some leading historians had some well-defined-and remarkably consonant-views...
...Sidney Hyman, University of Chicago, author of The Politics of Consensus: "Marshal Joffre once said that it takes 16,000 men to train one major general. And it often takes many more casualties to train a President. But when you look at Ike's presidency from the perspective of time, lots of things the days hide are revealed by the years. You see that there were surprisingly few casualties required to train Eisenhower. There's nothing dramatic about the kind of work that Eisenhower did, so he suffers by comparison with the trombones-and-drums kind of President...