Eisenhower's Wars

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🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890, before the Wright Brothers had completed man's first flight, and died just weeks short of man's first steps on the moon. With involvement in multiple wars, from soldier to president - how did 'Ike' as he was known become the giant of history that we know today?

In this episode James is joined by award-winning Journalist, and White House press corps member Paul Brandus, who takes us through Eisenhower's remarkable career. Looking at the major conflicts he was involved in, and the political legacy he left - what can Eisenhower's life & legacy teach us about the key moments in American History?

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0:00.0	Dwight D Eisenhower, Eisenhower. He's gone down in history as one of America's greatest presidents and one of its greatest military leaders.
0:08.5	But how did Ike, as he was known, rise up to become the towering figure that he's remembered as today.
0:15.0	Well, I'm your host James Rogers, this is the Warfare Podcast, and to take us through Eisenhower's
0:19.5	remarkable personal and professional history, I'm joined by award-winning journalist and member of the White House
0:25.7	Press Corps Paul Brandus. Paul also runs the popular at West Wing Report's Twitter account
0:31.8	and he's the author of many many books on the US presidency.
0:35.8	So sit back and enjoy this history of Dwight D Eisenhower, from his first entry into the US
0:41.9	military West Point in 1911 through to the Second World War
0:46.4	and his Cold War presidency.
0:49.2	Enjoy.
0:51.2	Hi Paul, welcome to the Warfare Podcast. How you doing today?
0:54.0	James Fine, thank you so much for having me on. Not a problem at all. It is great to have you here.
0:59.2	With your expertise on the US presidency and US military. I'm really keen to tap into this and to dig deep
1:06.9	into I guess arguably one of America's greatest military leaders and greatest presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1:16.2	So maybe take us back through history to Eisenhower's youth.
1:20.4	Where was he born?
1:21.4	Where was he brought up?
1:22.4	Well, just, uh, we'll go backward. youth. Where was he born? Where was he brought up?
1:22.8	Well, just, we'll go backwards here and I'll say that just as a presidential historian in
1:29.9	2021, C-SPAN, which is a kind of a U.S. cable channel, they do a survey of historians around
1:39.1	the country and I was honored to participate in that and we rank all the presidents on 10 different
1:45.0	categories. Eisenhower came out as the fifth greatest president ever which is
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