When Dwight D. Eisenhower decided in 1952 to run for president of the United States, his highest priority was foreign policy. When he entered the White House on January 20, 1953, world affairs and the nation’s role in them still were his major concerns. Eisenhower was “a man for whom the primacy of the problems of peace and war was instinctive, and for whom domestic political questions were an acquired taste.”7
