Eisenhower and Dulles

The overwhelming consensus among analysts of United States foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration is that it was dominated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Regardless of their often differing assessments of the policies, these writers agree that Dulles' forceful personality, lengthy preparation, and keen intellect enabled him to control and even manipulate the congenial but bland and passive President Eisenhower. This conventional wisdom has been based on the public record, the period's journalistic accounts, and the appraisals of individuals who were largely outside the inner circles of both the White House and the State Department. Recently much primary source material has become available that calls into question this traditional interpretation of the Eisenhower-Dulles relationship. The Whitman File in the Eisenhower Library contains thousands of pages of transcripts of the president's daily phone conversations, minutes of formal and informal meetings, memoranda and other written communications, and Eisenhower's private diary. By using this new material in combination with the extant but often overlooked sources-Eisenhower's wartime papers, interviews with White House and State Department insiders available in both the Dulles Oral History Project and Columbia Oral History Collection, and studies of Eisenhower's pre-presidential career-the current scholar can determine that the standard view of Dwight Eisenhower on the leading strings of John Foster Dulles is highly problematic

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• The "Top of Policy Hill"

  Anna Kasten Nelson, Anna Nelson•Diplomatic History•1983

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• Confessions of an Eisenhower Revisionist

  Richard H Immerman•Diplomatic History•1990

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• J. Lawton Collins, John Foster Dulles, and the Eisenhower Administration's "Point of No Return" in Vietnam

  David L Anderson•Diplomatic History•1988

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• Eisenhower Revisionism

  Stephen G Rabe•Diplomatic History•1993

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• "A Gradual and Moderate Relaxation"

  Robert Mark Spaulding•Diplomatic History•1993

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• Eisenhower's Scientists

  Open Access•Julia Macdonald•Foreign Policy Analysis•2013

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• Eisenhower and the first forty days after Stalin's death

  Klaus Larres•Diplomacy and Statecraft•1995

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• Eisenhower, King Utopus, and the Fifties Decade in America

  Open Access•Philip Abbott•Presidential Studies Quarterly•2002

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• Foreign Policy Decision Making, Garbage Cans, and Policy Shifts

  Open Access•William W Newmann•The American Review of Public…•1998

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• Public Opinion and Foreign Policy

  Douglas C Foyle•International Studies Quarterly•1997

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• Where "Does" the Buck Stop

  Paul A Kowert•Political Psychology•1996

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• Presidential Risk Orientation and Force Employment Decisions

  Open Access•Julia Macdonald, Jacquelyn G Schneider et al.•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017

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• Looking Like a Winner

  Open Access•John P Harden•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2023

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• Searching for the Right Balance? Managing Foreign Policy Decisions under Eisenhower and Kennedy

  William W Newmann•Congress & the Presidency•2015

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• Ronald Reagan—Another Hidden-Hand Ike

  Open Access•Fred I Greenstein•PS Political Science & Politics•1990

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• The “Operational Code” Approach to the Study of Political Leaders

  Open Access•Ole R Holsti, Ole Holsti•Canadian Journal of Political…•1970

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• Will the Real Dulles Please Stand Up

  Ole R Holsti•International Journal Canada s…•1974

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• A World of Men

  Lawrence E Gelfand, Lloyd S Etheredge•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1980

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