[Ticonderoga34]

In Eisenhower’s defense, he refused to send US forces to intervene in the battle of Dienbienphu. A good general knows you shouldn’t start a war unless victory is a sure thing. That is now considered one of the best things Ike did as president.

It's said of Eisenhower that he got the US out of one war (Korea) and kept the US out of another war (Vietnam). Eisenhower is a very underrated President in my view.

[Berosus]

I can see two reasons why Eisenhower is underrated. First, he was a Republican; we both know how liberals try to control the historical narrative these days. Second, as a general he learned to delegate authority, and as president he did it well enough that at times it looked like he wasn’t doing anything at all, except playing golf on the White House lawn.

Once I heard some joker say that FDR proved you can be president for life, Truman proved anyone can become president, and Eisenhower proved you don’t really need a president. Apparently that person didn’t know that in the Eisenhower administration, the action was happening behind the scenes.