Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment

[Craig234]

17. Thanks

And your post I return the comment, well said. I agree with your comments.

The CIA, in particular, was allowed to become a bigger disaster than we realize now for the public generally.

It happened largely not because Eisenhower wanted bad things, but because after the World War he led that was so horrific, a less deadly alternative than war was incredibly attractive - but happened to have opportunistic schemers such as Allen Dulles.

I've been reading L. Fletcher Prouty's "The Secret Team", which is one of the books that describes the history of how it went very wrong, exceeding all the limits its creators had tried to place on it, the tail wagging the dog.

Eisenhower made a comments at what point that he'd given up trying to reign in the Dulles brothers - which hardly exonerates him for keeping them in power.

Most of the good things that happened with Eisenhower were continuations of the FDR and Truman policies.