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Dwight Eisenhower: Supreme Commander
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Eisenhower's decision to fight on a "broad front," part of the original plan, repeatedly came under question during the attack across France. There naturally were political imperatives that made it essential for the Supreme Commander to use both army groups to fight the Germans. Destruction of the German armies
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Eisenhower accepts Germany's unconditional surrender on May 7 and is appointed commander of the United States occupation zone in Germany. In November Eisenhower returns to the United States to become Chief of Staff, United States Army.
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Rabbi Judah Nadich was Eisenhower's first adviser on Jewish affairs when the Allied commander faced the complex problems of dealing with the Jews from the concentration camps and displaced person camps. In most of the book, Nadich tells how Eisenhower learned about and quickly moved to help the refugees and ... describes further relations between Eisenhower and Jewish groups up to his election as president in 1952. Nadich has included a number of documents in his book.
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Prominent Democrats had tried unsuccessfully to draft Eisenhower for the presidency in 1948. After he became NATO commander, representatives of both parties continued to query him about his availability for 1952. Their interest was due to his widespread popularity and aloofness from partisan strife. Eisenhower was reluctant to enter politics unless he was drafted. The Democrats could have met his conditions and given him a virtually uncontested nomination. Yet he chose to declare that he was a Republican because he believed that Democratic policies were promoting centralized government at the expense of individual liberty.
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This book is a historical analysis of the development of U S. intelligence activities during periods of Eisenhower's leadership as supreme commander in Europe in World War II and during his presidency, with emphasis on the latter. Major intelligence events of the period included reestablishment of the Pahlavi shah in Iran, CIA activities, and the U-2 incident.
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TORCH and the subsequent Mediterranean operations were a period in which Eisenhower matured and gained self-confidence as a commander. Simultaneously, his Anglo-American staff settled down and became proficient in combined staff planning and
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