President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...

Eisenhower, also a political novice ... Ike ordered a review of Harry Truman’s Containment Doctrine that redefined U.S. foreign policy as an ideological struggle against international Communism.

Eisenhower tightly controlled U.S. foreign policy and was pivotal to the UN Security Council’s censuring of Israel in November 1953, March 1955, and in January 1956. The reasons for each rebukes ...

While he accepted the basic premise of the New Deal, his economic policy followed a moderate ... In the arena of foreign affairs, Eisenhower was confident. His commanding, yet subdued presence ...

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Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery reprehensible. As a military man he had been able to distance himself from petty political crusades in the name of the greater cause.