degree to which Eisenhower submitted to John Foster’s counsel, the alacrity with which he would reverse course on the advice of his secretary of state. In the estimation of a disgusted Winston Churchill, who positively loathed Dulles, “it appears the president is no more than a ventriloquist’s doll.” An alternate theory holds that the famously cautious Eisenhower knew exactly what he was doing, but used Dulles as a foil.
