#Non-fiction: The Age of Eisenhower

• Author: W.L. Hitchcock
• Title: The Age of Eisenhower
• Genre: non-fiction
• Published: 2018
• #NonFiction
• List of Challenges
• Monthly plan

Did you know?

1. Eisenhower agreed to give 400 million dollar
2. to France to keep them fighting in Indo-China 1956.

1. Eisenhower did not trust Nixon. Ike tried to ‘push’ off the ticket election
2. 1956 by dangling a cabinet post in front of ‘Tricky Dick’.
3. Nixon did not take the bait.

1. Eisenhower suffered from a blood clot in his heart September 1956.
2. What did Nixon do? He slipped out of his house through the back door
3. to avoid the press.
4. Nixon was scared to death ….he might have to lead the country!

Conclusion:

1. These are some of the items that I did not know.
2. This book reflected a man who remained
3. a social conservative who was anxious about
4. …clashes b/t federal courts and local customs (civil rights movement).
5. Eisenhower was not used to change
6. ….wary of challenging hierarchy.
7. Yet Eisenhower did manage
8. to surpass his limitations  and supported
9. The Civil Rights act 1957 and enforced court ordered
10. …for desegragation in Little Rock Arkansas.
11. which makes him a worthy president in my opinion.

Last thoughts:

1. I thought America in the 1950’s would electrify me.
2. Unfortunately, it was …to be the  fractious 1960’s
3. with Nixon, Kennedy, LBJ  these were presidents that
4. interested me more than  “I like IKE’.
5. The book was interesting and informative.
6. Eisenhower made many good calls in the White House
7. …an ran a fundamentally honest administration.
8. Ike was and remained a #GoodSoldier.