Eisenhower, good or bad?

Evaluating Eisenhower:

·     Old man, in an old party with old advisors dealing with old problems 

·     His image deliberately resembled a grandad 

·     He was unable to anticipate new problems nor adjust to the winds of change 

·     January 1961 Eisenhower delivered his farewell address concerned about the internal cost of the Cold War. He thought the small-town America was being threatened by the big government, ending the old American values 

·     JFK brought new ideas and approaches while dealing with tough problems as they dynamic president that Eisenhower wasn’t 

A success:

·     Despite the U-2 wreckage and the summit he still improved relations with Russia 

·     Avoided war 

·     Kept the arms race at a low level 

·     Eased the policy of permanent crisis

A failure:

·     He had failed to liberate any communist slaves 

·     Communism fell in Indochina 

·     Unable to end the Cold War 

·     Russia established a base in the Mediterranean 

·     The Cuban crisis