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This 5-page paper examines the Eisenhower presidency through the eyes of Fred Greenstein and his book, "The Hidden-Hand Presidency." The paper then discusses if current U.S. President George Bush would benefit from Eisenhower's method.
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a bland president that supposedly reflected the bland times. As more research is being discovered about Eisenhower, however, researchers are finding that he was anything but vanilla pudding. Behind the
easy-going fa?ade of a folksy president, Eisenhower was able to get things done. U.S. President George Bush is facing similar challenges in
the 21st century that Eisenhower faced during the middle of the 20th. Bush must also reassure the American people that they are safe, while trying to take steps to move
Congress toward his point of view. Given the similarities of these two men, Bush could possibly learn a thing or two from Eisenhowers style of politics - a friendly face
on the outside, with effective negotiations behind the scene. In order to support this theory, examples will be taken from Greensteins book, The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader, which was
revised in 1994. Before working on comparisons, its interesting to examine Greensteins view of Eisenhower and his presidency. When he left office
in 1960 to give way toward a new "Camelot" in President John Kennedy, Eisenhower was generally regarded as an ineffective president. True, hed been a commanding leader during World War
II, but once in office, he showed traits of being politically indecisive, inarticulate, and bumbling. He was considered by his critics to be a "lazy" president, one who spent more
time playing on the golf course and delegating affairs of state, rather than overseeing the business of the country. But Greensteins belief,
after a good deal of study of Eisenhowers papers, was that beneath the exterior of a good-natured bumbler lay an interesting and specific style of leadership. Greenstein notes that Eisenhower
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