Eisenhower Administrations - Eisenhower Becomes President
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Administrations
Eisenhower, the first Republican president for 20 years, was a skilled army politician and showed, by winning two elections, that he could transfer his political talent to the civilian world. He avoided U.S. involvement in foreign wars but demonstrated a firm resolve in the continuing Cold War face-off with the Soviet Union and China. At home he accepted much of the legacy of the New Deal, which annoyed the Republican Right Wing but conciliated the majority of newly affluent voters.
Eisenhower Becomes President
The Campaign of 1952
In the tradition of other war-heroes-turned-president, such as Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison, Eisenhower won the personal support of voters not normally pro-Republican. Portraying himself as...
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