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...Less than a year later, in June 1956, he was stricken again, this time with ileitis, which required major surgery. To his credit, Nixon, then Vice President, responded with tact and humility in a situation that might have stopped other men. After two such illnesses, it seemed impossible that Ike would run for reelection. But he did. "I want to finish what I have started," he said. On the eve of election, he was confronted with two simultaneous crises, the Hungarian Revolution and the Anglo-French invasion of Suez. Ike did nothing to stop the Russians in Hungary?there...
...into trouble. His Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey, disavowed his budget as too big. The economy slipped toward the worst recession since 1932. After a century of neglect, the problems of the nation's blacks burst forth. In 1954, the Supreme Court finally outlawed school segregation. Though Ike did not help to implement the decision, he did act when he had to, sending troops into Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 to enforce a court-ordered desegregation decree. In October 1957, Russia's success with Sputnik I cast a pall of self-doubt over the entire country?a mood that...
Abroad, the cold war became colder still, and the hopeful East-West exchanges of the first term turned to anger in the second. Ike was widely criticized for giving overly free rein to John Foster Dulles, his forceful but dogmatically inflexible Secretary of State. It must be remembered that Communism was then a very different force from what it is now, in its splintered and growingly bourgeois condition. But in hindsight it is also clear that Dulles needlessly oversimplified the world's predicaments by assuming that all nations must line up clearly on one side or the other...
...David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American U-2 spy plane. Not only was the conference canceled; Ike's planned trip to Russia was vetoed as well, a personal humiliation. The uncertain performance of his Administration, which clumsily lied and backtracked before Eisenhower himself claimed responsibility, marked the nadir of Ike's White House years, and the unhappy memory was only partly counterbalanced by his triumphal tours...
...vowing to "get the country moving again," John Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon?and by inference repudiated the Eisenhower era. Early in 1961, Ike, at 70, the oldest President in history, rode with Kennedy, the youngest elected President, down Pennsylvania Avenue. "The vitality of the man!" exclaimed J.F.K. his first night in office. "It stood out so strongly there at the Inauguration. There was Chris Herter, looking old and ashen. There was Allen Dulles, gray and tired. There was Bob Anderson, with his collar seeming two sizes too large on a shrunken neck. And there was the oldest of them...