Volume 5, Number 11 · January 6, 1966
Mr. Clean
By Ronald Steel
Waging Peace: 1956-1961
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Doubleday, 741 pp., $6.95
Of all the blessings of the Eisenhower years, that historical intermission when America stopped off for a snooze while the world churned inconsiderately on, surely the most wonderful was that we were in such safe hands. Ike was in his castle, and all was right with the world. Or so it would seem from this second volume of Presidential memoirs, covering the years from Eisenhower's re-election in 1956 to the inauguration of Kennedy in January 1961. In 660 soporific pages of text the former President recounts how in his second term in office he met every crisis with wisdom, dispatch, and a heavy sense of responsibility.
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