May the Best Ideas Win: What America's Next President can Learn from Eisenhower's Example


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Author(s): J. William DeMarco

Research Area: Government

Keywords: Dwight D. Eisenhower; War on Terror; Cold War

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

America’s next president, will have to negotiate a world where alliances and threats have shifted and will probably shift again. That president, taking office almost eight years into the war on terrorism, would benefit from studying Eisenhower’s moment of decision eight years into the Cold War.