Reston wrote that Eisenhower seemed reborn, “a man of action again, moving and planning and speaking out with a new serenity. . . . He has moved out of the shadows and into the center of the stage.” With the restraining figures of Sherman Adams and John Foster Dulles gone, Eisenhower seemed more flexible, dynamic, determined to secure his legacy. “He sees the light at the end of the tunnel,” Reston observed, “and some of the old sparkle has returned.”
