Eisenhower, on the other hand, tended to view the nuclear force as a quietly unassailable backdrop, whose relation to policy should be more subtly communicated.” Dulles’s version of American foreign policy was an ongoing sermon, which exhausted friend and foe alike. “Mr. Dulles makes a speech every day, holds a press conference every other day and preaches on Sunday,” Winston Churchill once noted. “All of this tends to rob his utterances of real significance.” Even in a town known for its stuffiness, sanctimony, deviousness, and partisanship, Foster Dulles stood out. The
