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Did Eisenhower Push Castro into the Arms of the Soviets?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Alan H. Luxenberg
Alan H. Luxenberg*
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Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia
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Once Blithely Dismissed as an Ill-Informed, inarticulate, and under-involved president, Dwight D. Eisenhower has come to be regarded with a great deal of admiration, particularly by historians whose ideological proclivities are considerably to Eisenhower's left. He governed in a time of prosperity; he ended one war and entered no other; he resisted pressures to increase dramatically the size of the defense budget and resurrected the summit as an instrument of diplomacy with the Soviet Union. Upon leaving office, he issued an historic warning about the perils of the military-industrial complex.

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A Backward Look at US Latin American Policy
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 37 - 72
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Copyright © University of Miami 1988

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