Posted on 07/29/2009 1:39:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TOPEKA, Kan. – President Dwight D. Eisenhower grappled with topics like relations with Iran and stability in Iraq during an era that was far more complex than thought, newly declassified documents show.
The papers illustrate that the 1950s, long viewed as an idyllic time of "I Love Lucy" and cars with tail fins, were fraught with delicate policy challenges.
"What's ironic is that the issues that Eisenhower was dealing with 50 or so years ago are the issues that the Obama administration is dealing with today," Eisenhower Presidential Library director Karl Weissenbach said Wednesday.
"The records show the U.S. has long been concerned over its relationship with the Muslim world."
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In 1984 there were no tests to tell if blood was infected. In the summer of that year I went with several other people to give blood--they were obviously trying to screen out high-risk individuals and there was a question about AIDS. I remember there was a Jordanian man who didn't know what AIDS was so I explained it to him as a kind of venereal disease. They didn't want his blood for a different reason--malaria in Jordan.
The assumption that the Eisenhower administration was inert is very wrong indeed. Unlike other presidents, Eisenhower adopted a military command style hierarchy during his presidency.
The reason things were so quiet, is because the administration used military efficiency to accomplish its goals quietly.
A properly run military command staff is a wonder to behold, and has been combat tested many times. Military people adore efficient staffs, because they are life and death important.
Sadly, you do not know your 1950s history but that aside, have you ever considered what the world would be like today if, instead of Ike in the saddle from '52-'60, we'd have had Adlai Ewing Stevenson II as President?
Adlai was noted, you know, for his brilliant intellectual demeanor, his 'gifted' ever so eloquent oratory and his never ending promotion of liberal causes.
Sound... 
familiar?
Eisenhower single-handedly destroyed the French and British empires by intervening on the Egyptian side during the Suez Canal Crisis. From then on, any problem around the world became America’s problem. And European public opinion swung decisively against America in all American interventions abroad.
“Adlai was noted, you know, for his brilliant intellectual demeanor, his ‘gifted’ ever so eloquent oratory and his never ending promotion of liberal causes.”
One of the great liberal myths of all time, Adlai’s brilliance. He flunked out of Harvard Law (Dean Griswold kept his records a secret) and was nothing better than average at Princeton and Northwestern.
Nothing wrong with being an average student, until the press perpetuates a myth that you’re brilliant beyond words.
Kennedy is another great liberal myth, with his ghostwritten books and his bogus Pulitzer.
(Notice how the Dems are co-opting another Repub president?)
My thought exactly!
And any comparison the the wimpish issues-bungler now occupying the WH completely neglects the "backbone & balls" factor.
It seemed “serene” because ADULTS WERE IN CHARGE!
An old argument comes to mind: was Kennedy a better leader for handling the Cuban Missile Crisis, or was Ike a better leader since the USSR never would’ve thought of pulling that crap on his watch?
The truth is, 1950s Americans makes today’s America seem like a freakish, totally divided country, infested with tens of millions of of illegal aliens, foreigners, Muslims, gangs running entire cities, with a corrupt, intrusive, punitive government that could care less about America’s best interest, or it’s legitimate citizens. A government that now wants to control everything in the country, including banking institutions, health care and private businesses.
Then they were replaced with other adults, like the sultan of socialism LBJ, born in 1908, that brought us his modern Great Society, war on poverty, Federal funding for education and the rest of his destructive socialistic policies.
Just because you’re old doesn’t make you an adult.
Ike was an adult. LBJ was not.
Tell that to the “It’s the baby boomers fault” lobby.
Nah, that makes for a fine generalization, but the simple truth is that every generation has its heroes and zeroes. The Greatest Generation had some retards. The Baby Boomers fought in Vietnam and brought about the Information Age. Generation X is leading a good portion of the current war and Generation Y is fighting it. My generation has a lot of scumbags, but also a lot of good dudes.
I’m not talking about hero’s, I am referring to the rapidly declining state of this country.
No kidding.
That would mean the U.S. State Department, of course, and perhaps the insiders at the Washington Post, the New York Times and other establishment media.
Not the American public, though, as the establishment media have consistently left the public in the dark as to what our government is up to in far-off corners of the globe -- either because they don't have the resources or, more likely, because they've been directed to.
I knew that was you! Good to see you again ;o)
“Vote for Adlai - He’s better than you !” ;-)
>>>> Truman was clueless about the level of communist infiltration in his own government. <<<<<
My Dad who was a Republican activist of sorts beginning in the 50’s, told me that he personally knew several card-carrying Communists when he was a student, and that there were in fact organized “social events” designed to seduce young people into the Communist Party USA.
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