Very good history of Eisenhower and the time that he lived and served in. The discussion of Ike's personality and quirky love of golf became a bit tedious, but the discussion of the budding rivalry between the Soviet Union and the U.S. is really quite insightful. I lived through that period and...
Library of Congress/Wikimedia *1 Nixon kept Kissinger off TV, too. On February 16, 1971—the day Nixon turned on his White House taping system—Haldeman jotted in his notebook: “Will never have K on TV re substance. Can brief here—but not public.”14 *2 The State Department experts believed that Kis...