I. Introduction

• •the "hidden hand" presidency

II. Eisenhower's career

• •Youth



• •military career (1911-1952)



• •President (1952-1960)
• •election of 1952



• •the "hidden hand" in foreign policy
• •Korean War
• •"New Look" defense policy and the CIA
• •death of Josef Stalin (1953)



• •the "hidden hand" in domestic policy
• •protecting and extending Social Security
• •controlling McCarthyism
• •failures in health care and farm policy
• •Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Little Rock (1957)

III. Conclusion

• •Limitations of the "hidden hand" method