Should Eisenhower Be Praised For His Foreign Policies?
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Eisenhower came into power at a time when American people were exasperated with Soviet relations and his fresh ideas seemed like a welcome change. Eisenhower should be praised for his initial ideas and policies. However, his one character flaw was that he could not back these policies up. And ....
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.... more effective if Eisenhower had backed them up to the end and not allowed his plans to become corrupted. He claimed to have halted nuclear weapon testing and yet within two years the atomic stockpile had tripled. He also warned against overspending while he was doing just that with defense budgets. At this point his plans were failing but when Dulles came into the picture he not only didn’t go through with his plans but he actually changed them completely.
Truman was known for being soft ....
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