The papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The Presidency: Keeping the Peace (Volume 18)

The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961.Completing a monumental project that began with publication of The War Years in 1970, this final set of volumes of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contains 1,783 documents drawn from Eisenhower's second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 January 1961. In these years Eisenhower worked hard to hold the focus of American national politics on the two major objectives he had set for his presidency in 1952: to sustain the policy of containment without precipitating a war with the Soviet Union and to reduce the role of the federal government in U.S. domestic affairs. In both cases, events at home and abroad intruded—diverting attention to immediate problems, endangering the peace, and forcing the White House to devote most of its leadership to the crises of the day. As president during this tense period, Eisenhower maintained an extensive and revealing correspondence with prominent individuals as well as with personal friends. These letters, together with the occasional entries made in his diary, shed considerable light upon the major national concerns of the 1950s. The volumes also include private and secret correspondence previously unavailable to scholars. Some of these items have been only recently declassified, and many appear here in print for the first time. Taken as a whole, the Eisenhower papers from 1957-61 provide firm documentary evidence of the manner in which Eisenhower dealt with the complex internal and external problems faced by all of our modern political leaders. Contents......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 I New Beginning, Old Problems JANUARY 1957 TO MAY 1957......Page 36 1 The Mideast and the Eisenhower Doctrine......Page 38 2 Foreign Aid......Page 158 3 “I am astonished and chagrined”......Page 264 4 “Logic and reason must operate gradually”......Page 320 5 Little Rock......Page 438 6 Sputnik and “the fears of our own people”......Page 506 7 NATO and the Cold War......Page 636 v. 1-5. The war years v. 6. Occupation, 1945 v. 7-9. The Chief of Staff v. 10-11. Columbia University v. 12 NATO and the campaign of 1952 v. 13. NATO and the campaign of 1952 v. 14-17. The presidency the middle way v. 18-21. The presidency keeping the peace President Dwight David Eisenhower may not have planned to make foreign affairs, in particular the effort to preserve the policy of containing communism, the central feature of his second administration.