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Dwight Eisenhower

  • The Fury of an Aroused Democracy and the False Furies of Today

    Instead of the fury of an aroused democracy, what the world sees today in America is a country consumed by false furies.

  • Eisenhower’s Unheralded Legacy in Space

    While JFK is rightly credited with kick-starting the space program with his bold challenge to land a man on the Moon, it was Eisenhower who started the space program and got things off the ground.

  • Leaving Afghanistan

    As the U.S. enters the tenth year of the war in Afghanistan, the Tennessee Congressman John Duncan writes it’s not just time to end the conflict, but it’s something Eisenhower would do.

  • Ike, War and Peace in Korea

    Eisenhower was a shrewd strategist who knew that U.S. success in the Cold War required a careful calibration of ends and means that preserved a winning asset- the formidable power of the American economy.