Eisenhower

When I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the 1950s, Dwight David Eisenhower—universally known as “Ike”—was the two-term president (1953-1961). I had nothing against Ike. I knew him as the General who had presided over the invasion of Normandy and been a hero in the Second World War, and that he had an appealing personality. But my parents were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats—as refugees from…