In 2017 a poll of over 100 historians ranked Eisenhower among the five greatest presidents in the nation’s history, behind only the true titans, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was a judgment that would have stunned his contemporaries but seems eminently sensible now. According to the poll, historians gave Ike particularly high marks for his handling of international affairs, his management of the economy, and his moral authority.
