Dwight D. Eisenhower

<p>As president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a moderate position on many issues, believing that “good judgment seeks balance and progress.”</p>

In this speech, Richard Nixon, then the Republican nominee for Vice President, addressed the American public in a 30-minute televised speech. During the address, he defended himself from allegations regarding improprieties surrounding his political expenses. He stated during the speech that…

<p><span class="deck"> What with all this democracy things will never be the same</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The job ran in the family; both his uncle and grandfather were Secretaries of State. Home life in a parsonage taught him piety, and the law precision. The rigid views of a world divided between good and evil he worked out, apparently, himself. Private letters and new taped recollections help explain the shaping of the man who set our Cold War foreign policy</span> </span></p>

<p>Operation Market-Garden promised to lay an airborne red carpet to victory, but its final objective proved to be “a bridge to far.”</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The ex-Presidency now carries perquisites and powers that would have amazed all but the last few who have held that office</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An insider’s account of a startling— and still controversial—investigation of the Allied bombing of Germany</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Coming on Line</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A quarter-century of judicial history, as seen—and made—by our only retired Supreme Court justice, a man whose allegiance to the Constitution often forced him to act against his personal preferences.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A noted historian argues that television, a relative newcomer, has nearly destroyed old—and valuable—political traditions</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Here is how political cartoonists have sized up the candidates over a tumultuous half-century.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">30 years after judging Eisenhower to be among our worst presidents, historians have now come around to the opinion most of their fellow Americans held right along.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Within the city’s best-known landmarks and down its least-visited lanes stand surprisingly vivid mementos of our own national history</span> </p>

<p>Only those of us who were there know what Ike was really saying when the famous photograph was taken.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The American army that beat Hitler was thoroughly professional, but it didn’t start out that way. North Africa was where it learned the hard lessons, and none were harder than the disaster at Kasserine. This was the campaign that taught us how to fight a war.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They’ve all had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, one was even flattering.</span></p>

<p>We owe the greatest infrastructure project in the history of the world to the fact that, in 1919, a young U.S. Army captain named Eisenhower was bored.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">America looked good to a high school senior then, and that year looks wonderfully safe to us now, but it was a time of tumult, and there were plenty of shadows, along with the sunshine.</span></p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Truman was Commander in Chief of the American armed forces, and he had a duty to the men under his command that simply was not shared by those sitting in moral judgment decades later.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Nikita Khrushchev’s son recalls a world in which the United States was the Evil Empire, and the Soviet superpower was a carefully maintained illusion.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Nikita Khrushchev’s son remembers a great turning point of the Cold War, as seen from behind the Iron Curtain</span> </span></p>

<p>In his last speech as president, he inaugurated the spirit of the 1960s.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The dog that saved Eisenhower</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The United States Military Academy turns 200 this year. West Point has grown with the nation—and, more than once, saved it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">BLAMING POWELL—AND EISENHOWER—FOR NOT HAVING PUSHED THROUGH </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Ike gets tough on China during the Korean War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The book that taught GI’s how to behave in England</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than a million children participated in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine trials of 1954, the largest public-health experiment in American history.</span></p>

<p>Eisenhower's call to proceed with D-Day was anything but inevitable.</p>

<p>Ike’s son, historian John Eisenhower, recalls attending meetings with the British wartime leader and reflects on his character and accomplishments.</p>

<p>In the early 1950s, top-secret efforts led to the first submarine trips to the North Pole by USS <em>Nautilus</em> and USS <em>Skate</em> in 1957 – dramatic successes that rivaled the Soviet Union's Sputnik that year – and shifted the balance of strategic power.</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/content/april-1969">April 1969 issue</a> was typical of classic issues of <em>American Heritage</em>, with dramatic and substantive essays on George Washington, Ike and Patton, the Transcontinental Railroad, the "ship that wouldn't die," and many other fascinating subjects from our nation's past</p>

<p>What the future president learned during a coast-to-coast military motor expedition would later transform America. </p>

<p>In five appointments to the Supreme Court, Eisenhower added conservatives, moderates, and a liberal, believing the president and courts should represent all the American people.</p>