“NO PRESIDENT HAD EVER HAD so little experience of politics and so little firsthand experience of American life” as Dwight D. Eisenhower, asserted the veteran political journalist Marquis Childs in his 1958 book, The Captive Hero.
That has changed since the ascension of Donald Trump to the Presidency, for he is the first President who never held public office or served in the military prior to his election in 2016.
