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On this episode of Our American Stories, Stephen Ambrose wrote the definitive biography of Dwight Eisenhower. Ike was born in a small, rented shack beside the railroad tracks in Denison, Texas. He was raised in a family of Mennonites—fundamentalists in their Christian faith who were also pacifists.

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Storytelling accounts can now be heard here at our American stories thanks to those from his estate. Ambrose wrote the definitive biography of Dwight Eisenhower was born on this day 1890 in a small rented shack beside the railroad tracks in Denison, Texas, was raised in a family of Mennonites fundamentalists in their Christian faith were also pacifists your Stephen Ambrose story of Dwight Eisenhower and Eisenhower was a great and a good man.

These two qualities don't always or even often go together, but they did with him. Obviously that is an assertion that needs proof.

Let me begin with some definitions in 1954.

Pres. Eisenhower wrote his childhood friend Sweet Hayes looked on the subject of brightness he thought brightness depended either on achieving preeminence in some broad field of human thought or endeavor or unassuming some position of great responsibility, and then start discharging his duties as to have left a marked and favorable imprint upon the future. The qualities of goodness and a man. I believe include APA broad sympathy for the human condition that is an awareness of human weaknesses and shortcomings, and a willingness to be forgiving of them a sense of responsibility toward others, a genuine modesty combined with justified self-confidence, a sense of humor and most of all a love of life and of people that last is the key. Eisenhower loved life he loved people to me that's the heart of his character from it float all the rest in the fall of 1912 third class cadet Dwight Eisenhower 22 years old was walking down the hallway at West Point, when a plane running full tilt on some fool Aaron Fern upperclassman ran into him knocking over reacting with what he called a bellow of astonishment in mock indignation.

Eisenhower scornfully demanded Mr. Dunbar generic term for a plea for your PCS previous condition of servitude.

What you do before you became a cadet and then Eisenhower and sarcastically you look like Barb, I was a barbarous or it was Eisenhower's turn to go red with embarrassment. Without a word he returned to his room. Ray told his roommate. I'm never going to Hayes another plebe as long as I'm at this place is a matter of fact I have to run over and knock me out of the company street before I make any attempt again. I just done something that was stupid and unforgivable. I managed to make a man ashamed of what he did to earn a living. He never raised again and as an adult he never shamed a man respect for others honesty in his dealings, love of life. These were some of the basic parts of his character from whence did they come, nurture and nature played their respective roles in shaping Dwight Eisenhower physically, he inherited a strong, tough, big, athletic body and extremely good looks. The quite fabulous grin along with keen intelligence. He also inherited a strong competitive streak from his parents, plus a bad temper, along with unquestioning love stern discipline ambition and religion. They made him study his parents did read the Bible aloud, do chores hold jobs as soon as he was old enough they instilled in him a series of controls over his emotions, his temper, most of all they gave him a solid Victorian outlook on the relations between the sexes and on proper conduct.

All his life he would blush if he slept and set a hell of a dam in front of a lady that she grew up in a strong Christian atmosphere, not a sectarian atmosphere.

He said once as president this country has to be founded on a strong religious faith, and I don't care what it is what he meant was he didn't care it was Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or River brethren. He wants to find an atheist someone who could watch Southern Methodist play Notre Dame and not care who want as president he began attending church regularly because he thought it was important to set an example wasn't something that he had done earlier in his life, but the religion was always very deeply there he began his first inaugural address with the prayer and went over so well. You decide to begin all his cabinet meetings with prayers about a year after he been in office. He was 1/2 hour into a cabinet meeting when he slapped himself on the headset got and we forgot the prayer from his parents and from his experiences in Abilene with his after all, almost exactly in the heart of America, the lower 40 8 PM start second values is honesty and fair play in all dealings into the very marrow of his bone. He implored the idea of treating or lying, and he never did. He also absorbed a fervent attachment to democracy that amounted to a religious faith.

This brew naturally in the soil of that little town out there on the Kansas prairie and you been listening to Stephen Ambrose told the story of Dwight D Eisenhower more of this remarkable story here on our American store. We have been here the host about Americans every day on the show were bringing inspiring stories from across this great country.

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He was successful because he was true to his character. The situation in North Africa.

Following the invasion in the fall of 1942 was exceedingly complicated with a lot of false promises coming from the British.

The Americans to the various French factions and optimizing our I know only one method of operation. He wrote in his diary to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

When Pres. Franklin Roosevelt pressured him to get tough with the local French Eisenhower refused explaining my whole strength in dealing with the Frank has been based upon my refusal to quibble or to stoop to any kind of subterfuge or doubledealing. The French responded to this, the gall told him as long as you say that I believe it was equally successful with this sometimes difficult British support and is sometimes egotistical American support. I need only mention the names of Montgomery and Pat know what I'm talking about. They might not agree with his decision that they gave him their trust. Indeed, whenever his wartime associates described Eisenhower whether they were superiors or subordinate.

There was one word that almost every one of them. You it was trust Col. Montgomery didn't think much of Eisenhower's assault be appreciated. Other qualities is real spring lies in his human qualities. Montgomery said he has the power of drawing the hearts of men towards him as the magnet attracts the bits of metal merely has to smile. You trust him at once. Scrupulous honesty was an integral part of Eisenhower's character and a learned experience he saw and experienced the payoff of this trust.

He knew that telling the truth was the only way to deal effectively with this problem. He also developed a technique to deliver his message.

I refuse, he wrote. I refuse to put anything in diplomatic or swab terminology and carefully cultivate the manner and reputation of complete blindness and honesty just a man to simpleminded to indulge in circumlocution last of the Kansas farm boy approached Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt and so many others always worked. It was the girl who hated war sunlight. Pat gloried in it, but Eisenhower could not.

He signed every letter of condolence coming out of Europe for three years. A very sobering experience.

He was the one who ordered the bombing and shelling of German cities.

He hated doing that to hated having to destroy when he wanted to build but he did his duty with all his skill and energy in 1943.

His older brother Arthur sent him a newspaper clipping that stressed his mother's pacifism and the irony of her son being a general I snarled back to say the pacifist I doubt whether any of them to test war as I they probably have not seen bodies riding on the ground or smelled the stench of decaying human flesh. Probably they have not visited the field hospital crowded with the desperately wounded what separates me from the pacifist, is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war. He told Damien a wartime letter. I think that all these trials and tribulations must come upon the world because of some great wickedness. Yet one would feel that man's merit intelligence to say nothing of his spiritual perceptions would find some way of eliminating war. The contrast between Eisenhower and those generals who gloried in war could not of been greater in a very keen sense of family.

The way in which each casualty meant a grieving family back home in 1963 when he was filming with Walter Cronkite, a television special entitled D-Day +20 years Cronkite sitting on that stone wall that looks onto that magnificent cemetery in Omaha asking what he thought about when he returned to normal. In reply he spoke not of the things that other generals were brought up.

He didn't speak about the tanks or the guns of the planes of the ships of the personalities of the commanders of their opponents are how he fooled the Germans or of the victory instead he spoke of the families of the men buried in the American Cemetery.

He said he could never come to this spot without thinking of how blessed he and Mimi were to have grant and how much it said to think of all the couples in America who had never had that blessing because their only son was buried here so far it looks like a saint, but he was a healthy, vigorous man in his early 50s.

During the war and minimal are notoriously receptive to female charm when they are far from the danger for many people the test of character is the marriage vow. In other words, what about case came was Ike's personal secretary and sometime driver. She was young enough to be used are very attractive with a bubbly personality to turtle and almost everyone else found charming. She had lost her fiancé in North Africa and had fallen in love with her boss for his part, how could he help would be responsive.

He liked her enormously probably had a crush on her. They were always together almost never alone. Decades later, in a book published after her death. K claim to say fallen in love and then both realized that in January 1944, when he returned to England from a short visit to Washington. They had their only evening together along there was a fireplace.

They sat on the floor.

His kisses absolutely unraveled cable. According to her account. It was a passionate un-consummated experience because after they took off each other's clothes. Eisenhower was last. This may have been the cause is one 800 and a grand understatement. A lot on his mind.

More likely it seems to me his stern sense of morality, character and honesty over Otis Pat and Kate Keating's wife.

Or maybe, if the incident never happened that was merely an old woman's fantasy. No one will ever know what is important to note is that not even Kay ever claimed that they had a genuine love affair, nor is it true that Eisenhower asked Pres. Harry Truman for permission to divorce his wife and ordinary K wood was always a ridiculous story to begin with because he was a five-star general.

They don't ask anybody's permission to do anything.

What he did ask Truman for was permission to have Mimi join him in occupied Germany throughout the war when Kate was with him always. His love for many Wisconsin to sustaining force was the thought that when the war was over he and Mimi could live together again you love me for half percent, except when he was often war they slept in the same bed with you and you been listening to the voice of Stephen Ambrose right Eisenhower born on this day in history, 1890 story of Dwight D. Eisenhower continues here on our American stores. Everything is more expensive these days with inflation, rising Medicare beneficiaries living on a fixed income are concerned about increasing costs meet your Medicare dollars go further by picking the right plan. Start by looking for a plan that gives you more. For example, many Medicare advantage plans include dental, vision and hearing benefits while original Medicare doesn't learn more about plan costs beyond premiums such as deductibles and co-pays and drug coverage find that right plan for you, visit you HC Medicare health plans.com what it's dramas you may know me from the recap on LA TV now got my own podcast life as a going to come at you every Tuesday and Thursday will be talking real and unapologetic about all things, the light Latin culture and everything in between.

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In the summer of 1942 to the spring of 1945. He was lucky to have her around and the allies were lucky she was there. The best advice and attempting to pass any judgment on the Eisenhower Summers B. Relationship was given by one of Eisenhower staff officers to an office gossip back in 1943, leave K and I go alone.

She's helping them win the war in 1939 when it looked like he might be forcibly retired as a Lt. Col.'s son John and ask him if he regretted having spent his career in the Army. Not all Eisenhower replied. He said he found his life in the Army wonderfully interested brought me into contact with men of ability and a sense of high dedication of their country.

The real satisfaction for a man is to do the best you can.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I work for regret when I was ordered to other duty leadership was another part of his character.

He was born to lead and he was trained to lead. He told John once that leadership was the one art that could be learn course only the born leader can say that Eisenhower reinforced his natural talent.

He studied the subject of leadership intends and he wrote some of his best analytical material on the subject.

An important part of leadership for Eisenhower rested on certain matters of character. These included modesty and a genuine eagerness to share the applause. Thus, through the war.

He never forgot how much he was dependent on others.

Thus, through the war. Reporters came to him, he would say go see Brad go see Pat get your story there.

The other ones are winning this war for this sharing the credit for success in taking the personal blame for what went wrong was Eisenhower's leadership style and all the announcements of D-Day. The operative words worthy out or we in the announcement, Eisenhower wrote by hand to release to the press. In the event of failure. The operative word was I as in all my fault.

Always take your job seriously never yourself was one of his favorite lines. The corollary to that sentiment was his willingness to sacrifice himself for the good of the whole 1944. Eisenhower wanted to put the Allied bombers to work on transportation targets in France are hard isolate Normandy. The bomber commander said no they want to continue the strategic bombing campaign inside Germany. Eisenhower felt so strongly about the issue that he told the combined Chiefs of staff that either they gave him his transportation heart railroads and turntables of marshaling yards and bridges and the like in France for him simply to have to go.

In other words, Eisenhower was not ready to commit his forces to the attack until he was certain that he had utilized every asset he had to the uttermost. If he could use the assets as he saw fit. He would resign his commission when he made the threat he was holding the most coveted command in the history of warfare. He got his way and the transportation plan was a big success. He later used the same threat in a knockdown dispute with Montgomery over strategy and command any again had his way, it was an integral part of him. This ability to know exactly when the user's personal asset. The power of his name to make the only threat that showed a nice sense of balance about political factors in accurate measurement of his own strength in a struggle over policy before working with the team to having to act on his own stress on teamwork began when he was a child shown again at West Point and was reinforced by his experiences as a football coach on various Army bases in the 1920s. By 1952 the year. Eisenhower entered in the politics of age 62. His character is formed by heredity and experience was set in cement that included his eyes said the qualities of love, honesty, faithfulness, responsibility, modesty, generosity, duty, and leadership, along with a hatred of war. These were bedrock or were they. This paragon of virtue. I am describing that live in the shelter of the Army nearly nearly all of his life, character, testing opportunities or temptations almost unknown to him.

It's easy to be virtuous when virtue is rewarded and this will be a hard sell to many veterans in here but it usually is in the Army is not so easy to be virtuous when virtue is ignore and partisanship is rewarded as in politics.

He grew up in the Army and he swore like a sergeant follow the words you use were never sexual or had any new anatomy.

They were always Christ in Dannon God Lynn words like that once he was at a luncheon with some cabinet members during the 56 reelection campaign and someone said something about somebody proposing something and Eisenhower started these damned amateurs. He said you know is only you and all the world. There's only two places where amateurs think that they're better than the professionals military strategy and prostitution doses and all-male luncheon and having said that he blacked and confessed that shamefacedly that's the only off-color story I know where his character showed most decisively was on questions of war and more specifically a first strike against the Soviet Union or in Asia. He was president during the worst decade of the Cold War. It was the only president to have a decisive lead over the Soviets in nuclear weapons lead so decisive that he could have ordered a preventative war with Kenneth Woods would have destroyed the Soviet Union as a military power, and they were then unable to retaliate. Given the amounts of money the United States and spending in the arms race and the fear it engendered in the fact that the Soviets would soon be able to retaliate, and eventually Michael. Even in nuclear weaponry. The temptation to use the bomber we still had the lead was tremendous at the time of the NBN food 1954 during the various crises are the Chinese offshore islands and 50 and regularly with regard to the Soviet Union.

Some of Eisenhower's principal advisors gave in to that temptation.

These include his Joint Chiefs of Staff is vice president's Secretary of State members of his National Security Council and many pond taught on May 1, 1954 that the national Security Council was bearing a paper calling for the use of atomic bombs to save the French in the NBN food eyes not respond.

I certainly do not think that the atom bomb can be used by the United States unilaterally.

He then went on to get to the heart of the matter. You boys must be crazy. We can use those awful things against Asians for the second time in less than 10 years. My God, and you're listening to Stephen Ambrose recounting many of the stories he told in his definitive biography of Dwight D Eisenhower level of a few of the things he said about Ike's leadership style in this the most important sharing the credit for success in taking the blame for what went wrong was his leadership style and this quote, perhaps best states his character. Always take your job seriously, not yourself. When we come back more of this remarkable story with one of the great storytellers in American history telling the story of one of the great military leaders in American history Ambrose on Eisenhower beer on our American stories.

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It was characteristic of him always to ask what happens next.

When your second soul. What are the likely consequences. Suppose we do pull it off, then what one of the other players. It was an attempt to look into the future and stood him in good stead as president after the Indian food fell the drink he's recommended a preventative attack against the Soviet Union Hyzaar asked them to think about what they were proposing. I want you to carry this question home with you gain such a victory.

What unit do there would be a great area from the yellow River all the way to Vladivostok just torn up and destroy without government without his communication is just an area of starvation disaster. I ask you over the civilized world do about I repeat, there is no victory, except in your imagination.

Another quality was patients make no mistakes in a hurry was a favorite axiom of his advisors urged him to destroy the Soviet Union. While you can still get away with it. He told them to be patient that in the end the Soviet system would implode because it was rotten at its core. This would take a long time, maybe as long as 50 years, but they would have to educate their own people in order to stamp with modern technology and when they did they would sow the seeds of their own undoing. It was a good steward's farewell address. He pointed out, we, you and I are government must avoid plundering for our own ease and convenience.

The precious resources of tomorrow.

We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. Then he uttered what all his lines is my all time favorite. He said we want democracy to survive for all ages to come, that faith in democracy was total. Even after five years of dealing with Congress in 1957 he told sweetie Congressman thinks of himself as intensely patriotic, but it does not take the average member long to conclude that his first duty to his country is to get himself reelected. This leads to a capacity for rationalization that is beyond belief. It was characteristic of him to seek compromise extremes to the right into the left of any political dispute are always wrong. He like to say the Democrats controlled Congress for six of his eight years in office. He got on with them a brief assessment of his accomplishments as president reveals something more of the man and his character. First and foremost, he presided over eight years of prosperity, marred only by two minor recessions by later standards. It was a. A nearly full employment, average unemployment rate in the 50s was 4% and no inflation, the average inflation rate in the 1950s and 1/2% year, about which he worried awfully. There was a 4% rise in real wages eat here for blue-collar work. Indeed, by almost every standard GNP personal income and savings homebuying auto purchases capital investment highway construction and so forth. It was the best decade of the second surely Eisenhower's fiscal policy's refusal to cut taxes are increased defense spending his insistence on a balanced budget. Play some role in creating this happy situation to special triumphs came in the field of foreign affairs or directory directly related to his character by making peace in Korea.

Five months after taking office and avoiding war thereafter. And by holding down the cost of the arms race.

He achieved greatness.

No one knows how much money he saved the United States. No one knows how many lives he saved by ending the war in Korea and refusing to enter any others despite 1/2 dozen and more virtually unanimous recommendations to do so again. Ben Fuqua, my Matsu, many others that he made peace and he kept the peace whether any other man could've led the country through that decade without going to war cannot be known. But we do know is that Eisenhower didn't Hyzaar seldom boasted that he did on this one. The United States never lost a soldier or a photo grounded my ministration said we kept the peace.

People asked how it happened but I got it didn't just happen. I'll tell you that is magnetic appeal to millions of his fellow citizens seem to come about as a natural and effortless result of this sunny disposition, but he worked at his apparent heartlessness that big grin and bouncy step often masked depression.or other weariness he believed it was the critical duty of a leader to always exude optimism. He made it a habit to save all of his doubts for his pillow for 40 years.

He came smoke cigarettes four packs a day and age 58 he quit cold turkey and he never again touch tobacco.

Clearly he was a man of tremendous willpower, although at the Paris Summit. The abortive Paris Summit in 1960 when Khrushchev was going on and on about Francis Gary Powers needed to demanding an apology and pounding the table and saw Hyzaar scribbled on the back of his about God I wish I had a cigarette use that tremendous willpower to conquer his own most negative characteristic awful temper when he got mad. It just everybody knew immediately, his face just beat red. The tension in his body was palpable thing to be felt all through the his age lived in terror of those moments of outbreak of his temper that anger that is contrived. That is put on for show apartments and actors anger can be an effective tool leadership was one Eisenhower often used but genuine anger deep, blinding is the enemy of leadership. Hyzaar often felt with Montgomery with McCarthy with others, but he never acted on one-way control his anger was to do his best to follow his own rule never question another man's motor is wisdom. Yes, not as modes. He also tried to always assume the best about other until shown otherwise he could do so consistently, even in a world full of high-powered men whose motives were often self-serving or base. Because of this most outstanding personal characteristic of his. His love for life and for people.

No one ever caught this better than Richard Nixon who observed in the day. Eisenhower died in 1969 the everybody love Dyke because I clubbed everybody.

Nixon went on to confess that he could scarcely believe such a thing was possible because he said, in my experience most politicians are men with very strong hatred. The Lord knows that Nixon was a man for such feelings in a man who always questioned the other guys motives, but as rise in our the only man he ever really hated was in a he was the general who hated war related the Nazis more. He was old-fashioned Victorian came to power in the mid-20th cent is virtues were those of the 19th-century honesty, integrity, and religious devotion and conviction were some of the to my knowledge, he never lied in his private life.

Not once in his public responsibilities he like twice, once in 1944. Never about where he was going to invade and once again I made a 1962 Khrushchev about what Francis Gary Powers is doing and that you two over the Soviet Union. In my own life when I'm faced with a moral question or a dilemma for a personal problem of choice. I'm in the habit of asking myself what would I do sad relate. I often come up short of the standards.

My only consolation is that so do most of the men I know whose lives I have studied and you been listening to Stephen Ambrose and work storytelling. Special thanks to the estate.

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