John W. Malsberger. The General and the Politician

In 1953 when Richard Nixon became vice president, the office had generally languished in irrelevance for more than a century. Except for occasions when the president died in office, the vice president counted for nothing. This situation changed when Dwight Eisenhower made Nixon a major figure in his administration and gave new importance to the office and the relationship between the chief executive and the vice president. The Eisenhower-Nixon association is a controversial subject that historians have debated for more than half a century. It is difficult to decipher because both men were extraordinarily complex and because so many historians patronized Eisenhower, detested Nixon, and adored their political opponents: Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and John Kennedy. An additional problem is the massive manuscript collections left behind by Nixon, which few historians have mastered. More than 60 years after they first took office, there is no definitive biography of either Eisenhower or Nixon and little understanding of how the two men worked together.

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