If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.


Dwight Eisenhower was aware of the dangers posed by the expansive Soviet Union and dealt with them by using the new found American power that developed during the second world war. He appointed many of the leaders who guided US forces to victory to responsible posts in the defense and state departments as well as the intelligence agencies.

Among the tasks he passed on the the CIA was to learn what the Fidel Castro was up to just ninety miles south of Florida. He had the looking at options such as regime change, etc. but the program was still immature when he passed his office off to the newly elected John Kennedy.

While he used the defense capabilities of the keep hostile nations at bay, he also realized that the people and organizations he used so effectively could also become a danger as they took on a life of their own with their own ideas and agendas. In his farewell address to the nation, Ike warned of the hazards posed by the military-industrial complex that found conflicts profitable for the supplies and empowered the warrior class when they were called to action.

Eisenhower in War and Peace
by Jean Edward Smith

In this extraordinary volume, Jean Edward Smith presents a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower that is as full, rich, and revealing as anything ever written about America’s thirty-fourth president. Here is Eisenhower the young dreamer, charting a course from Abilene, Kansas, to West Point and beyond. Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources, Smith provides new insight into Ike’s maddening apprenticeship under Douglas MacArthur. Then the whole panorama of World War II unfolds, with Eisenhower’s superlative generalship forging the Allied path to victory.
 
Smith’s chronicle of Eisenhower’s presidential years is as compelling as it is comprehensive. Derided by his detractors as a somnambulant caretaker, Eisenhower emerges in Smith’s perceptive retelling as both a canny politician and a skillful, decisive leader. He managed not only to keep the peace, but also to enhance America’s prestige in the Middle East and throughout the world.

Learn much more about this amazing man here.