Nor would they have doubted for one moment the thesis that America was in peril, fighting for its life against communism, or that disloyalty must be rooted out of public life, or that government itself was something to be looked on with suspicion, an impediment to the healthy functioning of the free market and the pursuit of individual happiness. These men had not been brought into the cabinet for their diversity or heterodox ideas. Quite simply they embodied the Age of Eisenhower.
