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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953~~~Dwight Eisenhower was born to poverty, but rose to be the savior of Europe and preside over the perilous early years of the Cold War. Follow along as Ike punches a ticket to education and upward mobility at West Point, leads the allied armies of Europe to victory during World War II, and faces off with Soviets abroad and racists at home from the White House. Bibliography1. Eisenhower in War and Peace – Jean Edward Smith2. Truman – David McCullough3. FDR – Jean Edward Smith4. Richard Nixon: The Life – John Farrell 5. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 – Robert Dallek6. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream – Doris Kearns GoodwinSupport the Show.
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38.A) Gerald Ford in the Maelstrom, an interview with Brooke Clement
38.) Gerald Ford 1974-1977
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37.B) The campaigns of Richard Nixon, an interview with John Farrell
37.A) Nixon's Domestic Agenda, an interview with Luke Nichter
37.) Richard Nixon 1969-1974
16.F.) How Lincoln changed American immigration, an interview with Harold Holzer
36.B) LBJ's Great Society, an interview with Mark Updegrove
36.A) LBJ & Vietnam, an interview with Mark Lawrence
36.) Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969