Posted on 03/28/2019 3:56:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Kicked the illegals out of the country and built the Interstate Highway.
Thank you for the post, will have to see if I can get the book on Kindle.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Eisenhower’s reputation keeps rising. The latest poll of professional historians, in 2017, put him at #5 of all the Presidents (after Lincoln, Washington, FDR, and TR).
My father, for reasons I never fully grasped, carried an animosity towards Eisenhower to his grave. Dad was an airplane radio mechanic on Guam in WWII; the best I can tell is that he disliked staff-type officers, he liked Patton and Halsey rather than Eisenhower and Marshall.
One of Eisenhower’s first assignments as a 2nd Lt. was being part of a caravan of war materials in the post-WWI era to see how long it would take to move anything from one coast to the other. He was so dismayed by the road system that he swore if he ever got the chance he would build a much better one. He got the chance.
https://www.thriftbooks.com has all of David’s books at great prices.
After reading “American Betrayal” by Diana West I’m not sure what to think of Eisenhower.
Thanks folks for the links
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alfa6 ;>}
My Father also had those negative feelings toward Eisenhower. Daddy was in the combat engineers in Europe.
Now he liked Patton and oddly enough, Montgomery. I tried to explain that Eisenhower saved Patton when everyone wanted to fire him. Daddy simply would not believe me and insisted that Eisenhower abandoned him.
Eisenhower’s reputation keeps rising. The latest poll of professional historians, in 2017, put him at #5 of all the Presidents (after Lincoln, Washington, FDR, and TR).
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I would definitely put Ike above either of the Roosevelt’s, and way above FDR. FDR was a Socialist and extended the Great Depression by nearly a decade. He should be near the bottom of the list, just above Carter who is just above Obama.
My father, a WW2 vet, a 3 war Marine, and a staunch patriot gave me a number of insights into General Eisenhower as I grew up. So, I have always held the general in high regard.
I wish my father was still alive so I could tell him how much I admired him and his insights, both political and military. This country is in such desperate need of men like Eisenhower and my father. It is horribly sad that most of those, civilian and military, that are considered leaders now would not be fit to polish the shoes of men like my father, Eisenhower, and many of their contemporaries.
Those days are gone forever my FRiends.
Ike's letter of reprimand and disciplinary orders were intended to head off more drastic action by Washington. Ike did not want Patton sent back to the States and he succeeded in heading that off.
Bfl
And warned us of the Military Industrial Complex.
An excellent book on that is “Marshall and His Generals” Us Army Commanders in World War II by Stephen R. Taaffe.
It’s an excellent book.
> Now he liked Patton... <
On the flip side, a older friend of mine was in Patton’s Third Army. He hated Patton, and said that he was an insufferable egotist. My friend said that Patton would often bust infantrymen for minor infractions, like not having your tie on straight. Good for discipline, I suppose. But bad for morale.
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