LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Dwight Eisenhower: Cold War
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Files include: CIA staff accounts of briefings of Eisenhower. Memorandums concerning Eisenhower's guidelines for the use of nuclear weapons. Missile warning systems. A report ordered by President Eisenhower of CIA covert activities, which outlines the agency's theories and policies concerning covert activities.
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Eisenhower’s father was stern, but his mother was warm and loving. They were both deeply religious. The family read the Bible and prayed each night; Sundays were devoted to church services. They planted in their sons a lifelong commitment to duty, responsibility, and honesty.
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Carefully and in some detail, Blumenson cites the opinions of military personnel and historians critical of Eisenhower's role as supreme commander. Most saw him as a lucky, congenial, and popular man who made a good figurehead but otherwise was just a go-between for his superiors in Washington and his subordinate commanders - a "chairman of the board" who made no real decisions and did not want to do so. Then, Blumenson just as carefully refutes such claims with a detailed discussion of Eisenhower's professional schooling and other Army training, his service under leading commanders in the War Department, his ability to pick the best men as part of his command team and to cooperate with leaders from the Allied nations, and his proven ability to make necessary and specific decisions as required. Blumenson concludes that, although the circumstances of his command caused him to play the role of chairman of the board at times, General Eisenhower was a flexible and outstanding military commander.
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