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Brought back to the U.S. in 1940, Eisenhower became Third Army Chief of Staff in 1941. He planned the maneuvers of 270,000 troops in Louisiana that fall so ably that he won the attention of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, who was searching diligently for men to direct the battles he foresaw. The blunt fact remained that after 30 years as a professional soldier, Eisenhower's permanent rank had gone no higher than lieutenant colonel. So little was he known that photo captions of the exercises listed him as "Lieut. Colonel D. D. Ersenbeing...
...some shebang. First as Chief of the U.S. forces and then as commander of all Allied troops, Eisenhower led the most awesome military machine the world had yet seen, eventually to number more than 4,000,000 men. Landing first in North Africa, his men stormed the beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast...
...first of his heart attacks but recovered quickly. 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...
...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...
...Administration is pledged to lead the U.S. from "an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." However, few doubt that Richard Nixon will seek the counsel of men from both eras. His first two major decisions were, in effect, announcements that the new President would not be rushed from one to the other. He altered but preserved the basic plans for a dubious anti-ballistic-missile system. Even while concentrating on negotiations at the peace table in Paris, he continued to prosecute the war in Viet Nam at a cautious but undiminished pace. The task of defending those decisions...