Dwight Eisenhower Archives - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
by | Dec 15, 2022

When Dwight D. Eisenhower left the presidency at the age of 70, there was excitement in the air as the torch of power was passed to “a new generation” exemplified by 43-year-old John F. Kennedy. The national media fawned over…

by | Oct 13, 2022

I recently read Stephen Ambrose’s excellent biography, Eisenhower: Soldier and President, on our nation’s 34th president. In the 640-page tome, Ambrose discusses the famous farewell address Eisenhower delivered the evening of Jan. 17, 1961, in the midst of the Cold…

by | Jun 3, 2022

It was a pleasure reading about strong and competent leadership brought to bear when it was absolutely necessary. But I couldn’t avoid a tinge of sadness as well when realizing that, while we’re now in perilous times again, leadership, political…

by | Mar 21, 2022

Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the habits of successful crisis management by presidents. I studied four presidents who faced serious foreign policy crises and resolved them…

by | Mar 13, 2022

Recently, Yale Law School professor E. Donald Elliott, a first-rate lawyer and regulatory expert, wrote in TAS that a little-known provision in the 25th Amendment can be used to swiftly toss the sitting president and vice president, and replace them…

by | Feb 8, 2022

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost…

by | Dec 28, 2021

The United States is in the midst of the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, and it would be helpful if President Biden and his national security team looked back on the previous crises, especially the crises that came closest to starting…

by | Dec 5, 2021

Former Republican Senator, majority leader, and 1996 presidential candidate Bob Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning. He was 98, and one of the ever-dwindling number of survivors of what has been called, with good reason, the greatest generation. No…

by | Mar 22, 2021

What happens now? Trump was defeated, but more than 74 million people voted for him, and Republicans won’t elect a president in 2024 if they leave the party. And yet that obviously won’t suffice. The party will need both the…

by | Jan 19, 2020

Elites sneered when Norman Vincent Peale said similar stuff. In fact, during his 1956 presidential campaign, Adlai Stevenson, who fancied himself an intellectual and didn’t mind if others did too, snarked that “Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle…

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