Evan Thomas: "Ike's Bluff"
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Historian Evan Thomas talks with Diane about why he believes President Dwight D. Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
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Evan Thomas
journalist and author of "Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"
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Excerpt from "Ike's Bluff" by Evan Thomas. Copyright 2012 by Evan Thomas. Reprinted here by permission of Hachette Audio. All rights reserved.
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Could it be that the beginning of the partisan divide started with Ike's snub of Truman on
Inauguration day?
The "Cold War",probably the biggest rouse ever perpetrated on a free people. The insanity of Sen.Joe McCarthy. A nation worked up into a frenzy against our own ally`s.
Go to war in Korea and Vietnam,to fight Communism there,or fight it here? As nutty as the T-Party is today. Over 100,000 Americans died in those wars. And what do we do? We send these evil governments our jobs,our wealth,and our future.The Communist Chinese government couldn`t have gotten better terms even if the U.S. had been humiliated and surrendered on the battleship,the MIghty Mo.
These people have never been held to account for their failures. Not the Cold War. Not Iran Contra. Not the failed Bush Tax Cuts and economy. NOTHING ! The saddest part is these folks on the radio telling Americans to accept responsibility for their action. Is this "Candid Camera",it is funny !!!
Read the Republican Platform of 1956,and Eisenhower.Where have these loyal Americans gone? Has a space ship kidnapped those folks are replaced them with the T-Party aliens?
Dr. Thomas presents a very coherent view of Eisenhower's presidency, and is to be commended for it, especially at this time of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which he says may have had its roots in the Gary Powers U-2 incident. However, it might be advisable for him to audit a beginning Russian class at Princeton. "Nayet" is not how one says no in Russian! This otherwise marred his very interesting discussion.