Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
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