[Ancesthntr]

“Eisenhower was a near traitor for what h÷did to Mccarthy. His “ Modern Republicanism” suckered as well. The orginal Rhino.”
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Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that your analysis of Eisenhower is correct (and I don’t believe that it is), then how, exactly, does that make his assessment of Robert E. Lee’s character incorrect? IOW, it seems pretty clear that you’re making an ad hominem argument that utterly fails to address the substance of what Ike said about Lee.

[cowboyusa]

I addressed Lee in one of the posts.

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Eisenhower's parents were born during the Civil War. They lived with the idea of the country being torn apart. After the Civil War there was a major effort to keep the country together. As part of the compromise the North gave up attempts to change the South and Southerners kept their heroes and legends.

Eisenhower was born and graduated West Point in the heyday of that compromise. He also went to West Point, where Lee had studied and been commandant. Like everyone else in the military during his service, he wanted to keep the North and the South together. That was the great rift that politicians and generals had to heal and the effort to do so accounts for Eisenhower's attitude towards Lee, who was not only a great symbol for half the country, but an icon at West Point.

Today, the country, or its leaders, are convinced that we are more divided by race, so they put their efforts into that. In a way, today's military bureaucrats aren't so very different from those of Eisenhower or Pershing's day. The focus is different, but the idea that they are trying to hold the country and the military together persists. They may be right or wrong in what they do, but the same applies to the military leaders of Ike's day.

I point out also, that Eisenhower's mother had been born in Virginia. I don't know how Virginian or how Southern she was, but her Southern background might also have been on Ike's mind when he thought of Lee and the Civil War.