What We Saw

We Like Ike

In the years after World War II, Dwight David Eisenhower was arguably the most popular man on the planet. His patriotism on the battlefield was matched only by his initial reluctance after the war to become Commander-In-Chief. With enough persuasion General Eisenhower would become President Eisenhower, and face a brace of unknown Soviet leaders named Malenkov and Khrushchev. But no one was prepared for the anti-military, anti-war statements and policies from the man who’d fought so hard just a few years before.