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- Title
I Like Ike.
- Authors
Burleigh, Michael
- Abstract
The article compares and contrasts U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Barack Obama. It considers how both presidents dealt with inherited wars, Eisenhower ended the Korean War while Obama ended the Iraq and Afghan Wars. Other topics considered includes how the presidents dealt with insubordination among their staffs, their attitudes towards racism, their policies regarding military spending, their ideas regarding regionalism in international relations, and their use of intelligence gathering services in making foreign policy decisions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRESIDENTS of the United States; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; EISENHOWER, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; EXECUTIVE power; RACIAL attitudes of American presidents; UNITED States politics &; government, 1953-1961; UNITED States politics &; government, 2009-2017; FOREIGN relations of the United States
- Publication
History Today, 2013, Vol 63, Issue 4, p45
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article