All I remember of Ike's time in office was his point man, John Foster Dulles the Secretary of State. This guy made Ronald Reagan look like a panty waist with his rhetoric. Newspaper headlines of the day seemed to ramp up the cold war tension to breaking points. Tense times although I was young and believed news sources of that day were accurate and reasonable.
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As secretary of state Dulles was often portrayed as the stern Presbyterian moralist who made speeches condemning atheistic communism and threatening massive retaliation. For many historians he was the very model of the ‘cold warrior,’ a reductionist whose rhetoric intensified the ideological gulf between East and West. Moreover, since Eisenhower was perceived as a chief executive who reigned but did not govern, Dulles was regarded as the architect of American foreign policy.
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