Ike seldom gets the credit he deserves. It’s like he was an invisible President.
Agree. Great description.
‘It’s like he was an invisible President.’
which is because he wasn’t a ridiculous narcissist like today’s politicians, and didn’t draw attention to himself, as the current lunatics do...
Ike made his bones during the war, when it really counted...
He was the first President after the rise of ubiquitous television news. The leftie media bashing began against him, who could never catch a break from the Democrat screeching. He was so efficient and effective at what he did, quietly and matter-of-factly without fanfare, that the liberals called him the "do-nothing" President.
Ike had already had quite enough drama in World War II, had witnessed the Nazi death camps and had ordered that their atrocities be photographed so that no one could ever credibly claim that the Holocaust really didn't happen, and he needed no further drama in his life. He did his job dutifully and competently, and with bold decisiveness when necessary such as the integration of the schools against rabid Southern Democrat opposition; he was a man who was already conditioned to an environment in which the smallest strategic or badly timed missteps could result in the deaths of many.
The list of his real accomplishments is not only long, but much of the credit for it was appropriated by others, particularly the grandstanding Kennedy brothers and two of the rumored conspirators in JFKs extinction who would later become President (LBJ and Poppy Bush).
He was one of the the very best Pesidents other than Washington and Trump, better even than Reagan, but few seem to know it. God bless his memory.