Term Papers on Dwight David Eisenhower

Term Paper Title	Dwight David Eisenhower
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Dwight David Eisenhower

     The taste of victory was fresh and sweet to John Fitzgerald
Kennedy. Just about a year ago, he sat in the drawing room of his
Georgetown home and spoke breezily about the office he would
assume. "Sure it's a big job," he said. "But I don't know anybody
who can do it any better than I can. I'm going to be in it for
four years. It isn't going to be so bad. you've got time to think
-- and besides, the pay is pretty good."

     One year later, on a cool, grey day, the 35th President of
the United States sat at his desk in the oval office of the White
House and discussed the same subject. "This job is interesting,"
he said in that combination of Irish slur and broad Bostonese
that has become immediately identifiable on all the world's
radios, "but the possibilities for trouble are unlimited. It
represents a chance to exercise your judgment on matters of
importance. It takes a lot of thought and effort. It's been a
tough first year, but then they're all going to be tough."

     The words, not particularly memorable, might have come from
any of a thousand thoughtful executives after a year on the job.
But here they were spoken by the still-young executive in the
world's biggest job, and they showed the difference in attitude
and tone that twelve months in the White House have worked on
John F. Kennedy.

     Jack Kennedy -- Man of the Year for 1961 -- had passionately
sought the presidency. The closeness of his victory did not
disturb him; he took over the office with a youth-can-do-anything
sort of self-confidence. He learned better; but learn he did. And
in so doing he not only made 1961 the most endlessly interesting
and exciting presidential year within recent memory; he also made
the process of his growing up to be President a saving factor for
the U.S. in the cold war.

     Kennedy has always had a way with the people -- a presence
that fits many moods, a style that swings with grace from high
formality to almost prankish casualness, a quick charm, the
patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge
and a greed for facts, a zest for play matched by a passion for
work. Today his personal popularity compares favorably with such
popular heroes as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

     During 1961, Kennedy suffered some major setbacks, including
one, in Cuba, that might have ruined some Presidents. (Richard
Nixon has said: "If I had been responsible for failing to make a
critical decision on the Cuban business which would have brought
victory, I would have been impeached.") Yet, his popularity has
remained consistently high, seemingly unaffected by his
vicissitudes. In the latest Gallup poll, 78% of the American
people said that they approved of the way he is doing his job.
But personal popularity, as Kennedy well knows, is not always
reflected in widespread support of public policy. To translate
popularity into support is the job of the politician -- and the
job to which Kennedy has come increasingly to devote his time and
energy.

     In many of the most visible ways, Kennedy has been little
changed by the presidency. In the White House, he still fidgets
around, prowling the corridors and offices, putting his feet on
his chair, pulling up his socks, tapping his teeth, adjusting and
readjusting the papers on his desk, occasionally answering his
own telephone or making his own telephone calls. It used to be
that the telephone salutation, "This is Jack," would bring the
instinctive question, "Jack who?" But no longer. Now everyone in
Washington knows who Jack is: he is the man at the other end of
the line.

     At 44, Kennedy's weight remains steady at 175 lbs. He has
few more grey hairs or wrinkles of care than when he took office
-- but he somehow looks older and more mature. Indeed he is older
-- but in a way that the mere month-by-month passage of time
could not have made him.

     Less Than Omnipotent. Kennedy has come to realize that
national and international issues look much differe...

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