“General Eisenhower is on the phone.” Nixon braced himself. “Hello Dick,” came the flat Kansas twang over the line, “warm and friendly,” Nixon would recall. “You’ve been taking a lot of heat the last couple of days. I imagine it’s been pretty rough,” said Eisenhower. Nixon did not disagree. “You know,” the general continued, “this is an awfully hard thing for me to decide. I have come to the conclusion that you are the one who has to decide what to do.”
