[rarestia]

Any FReepers alive during Dwight’s reign who can speak to the man as a person? I’ve not read much disparaging stuff about him, but he seems to be one of the lesser lauded presidents of the 20th century.

[EternalVigilance]

Good question.

In some sense, I think he was a man of a different era, and therefore is a bit difficult to judge by our modern-day standards.

But the WWII generation venerated the man, that’s for sure.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Any FReepers alive during Dwight’s reign who can speak to the man as a person?"

I was not alive during his reign but I have read about him. Of course he had his famous tryst with his secretary during WWII. People do have moral failings. I also know that he was instrumental in getting the words "under God" added to the Pledge.

[WestwardHo]

Travel the back roads of Kansas. Find a old farmer, now retired, who works 80 acres just for fun. Let him reach out his large, hard hand to great you with a large handshake, and you have met Dwight Eisenhower.
I was in elementary school when he was President. Each week we read the Weekly Reader, a small newspaper for the schools. I still see his picture. Queen Elizabeth was young, and so elegant. They made us believe in people larger than life, larger than themselves. America the Beautiful.
So much has been stolen from us. It’s beyond grief.

[dfwgator]

Ike is right behind Reagan as my favorite President.