Back in Washington, Eisenhower found the U.S. military establishment in a state of woeful disarray. He considered Truman far too complacent and prone to accept the armed services’ expressions of confidence at face value. In his diary he wrote that Truman was “a fine man who, in the middle of a stormy lake, knows nothing of swimming. Yet a lot of drowning people are forced to look to him as a life guard.”
