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Dwight Eisenhower: Cold War
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Although suffering a heart attack in 1955 and an attack of ileitis in 1956, Eisenhower had successfully sought re-election for a second term in 1956, winning — again over Stevenson — by an increased margin, by 35.5 million votes to 26 million. However, despite the size of the win, he did not have a significant coat-tails effect. His vote was essentially personal. Although his popularity dipped toward the end of his presidency — the result of economic downturn — he nonetheless remained a popular figure. At the end of his presidency, he warned prophetically against the growth of the "military-industrial complex" and then retired to his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He died eight years later at the age of 78.
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Eisenhower became executive officer to General Fox Conner in the Panama Canal Zone, where he served until 1924. Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory (including Karl von Clausewitz's On War), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking. In 1925-26, he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and then served as a battalion commander at Fort Benning, Georgia until 1927.
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Eisenhower was re-elected in the 1956 Presidential Election and served a second term. A popular President throughout his tenure in office, his popularity did not lead to a coattail effect as his Vice President Richard Nixon barely lost his own Presidential bid in the 1960 Presidentail Election and the Republican Party lost 12 seats in the U.S. Senate. Eisenhower's final speech as President was his most well known, in which he warned of the "military-industrial complex". [5]
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Miller combines official records with the recollections of those who knew Eisenhower to portray him from his years at West Point through his tour as supreme Allied commander in World War II. Miller corrects common misconceptions about Ike's personality and background.
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Eisenhower, in his personal letters, did not merely hate the Nazi Regime, and the few who imposed its will down from the top, but that HE HATED THE GERMAN PEOPLE AS A RACE. It was his personal intent to destroy as many of them as he could, and one way was to wipe out as many prisoners of war as possible.
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Stevenson found it impossible to dent the President's enormous popularity, even when warning about Ike’s dubious health (in fact Eisenhower, who was ten years older, outlived Stevenson). He criticized Eisenhower for using nuclear fears to keep the peace, settling for prosperity that excluded many farmers and small businessmen, and exulting in "progress" that forced children to endure a shortage of schools and teachers. Stevenson, a conservative on racial issues, ignored civil rights, as did Eisenhower. Stevenson ridiculed Eisenhower for narrow, weak, and even indolent leadership, quipping that the President devoted more energy to his golf game than to driving important legislation through Congress. Stevenson offered spending proposals to raise the quality of life by providing federal aid for educational programs, medical research, economic development of depressed areas, and health care for the elderly. Few voters paid attention.
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