Eisenhower Presidential Years
Dwight David Eisenhower was considered a popular President throughout his two terms in office, and his moderate Republican policies secured him numerous victories in the Democratic majority Congress (Dwight pp). He strengthened established programs, such as Social Security, and launched new ones, such as the Interstate Highway System, which was the single largest public works program in the nation's history (Dwight pp). During this Cold War era, Eisenhower often relied on covert action in an effort to avoid taking public responsibility for controversial interventions (Dwight pp). He believed that the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, was a particularly effective tool to counter Communist expansion and assist friendly governments (Dwight pp). Although he authorized the CIA's use of unsavory tactics, such as assassination and bribes, he maintained denial and carefully concealed all evidence of U.S. involvement (Dwight pp). Within six months of taking office, Eisenhower agreed to an armistice that ended three years of fighting in Korea, and only on one other occasion did he send troops into action and that was in Lebanon in 1958 (Dwight pp). He relied on nuclear strength to prevent the outbreak of war, but also authorize
It is said that Eisenhower had difficulty balancing means and ends in protecting national security, for although he used covert interventions, he also spent more than half the federal budget on the military, while at the same time claiming that "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired was a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed" (Dwight pp). In his Farewell Address, he cautioned to be wary of the "military-industrial complex," not allow special interests to absorb the national wealth or to "endanger our liberties or democratic processes" (Staten pp). In fact, the CIA was involved in toppling the governments of Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954, however failed in 1958 when it intervened in Indonesia (Dwight pp). d the CIA to undertake covert actions to secretly overthrow unfriendly governments and protect anti-Communists leaders who found themselves threatened (Dwight pp). As a realist who recognized the limits of American's capabilities, Eisenhower understood the importance of balancing the nation's resources with U.S. foreign policy commitments (Staten pp). He initiated a pragmatic foreign policy by rede
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