You might not want to defend Eisenhower too much. It was widely known he was inept.
“You might not want to defend Eisenhower too much. It was widely known he was inept.”
That was certainly a conceit of the mainstream press in the 1950s. Proving that the arrogant stupidity of the MSM is not a recent phenomenon.
Ike played them like the fools that they are, just as Trump does now. Eisenhower not only didn’t care that the press thought him incompetent, he used that to his advantage.
That’s all detailed in Fred Greenstein’s “The Hidden Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader”. I’m convinced that Trump read and absorbed that book long before he decided to run.