Eisenhower Presidential Years Dwight David Eisenhower was considered a popular President throughout his two terms in office, and his moderate Republican policies secured him numerous victories in the Democratic majority Congress (Dwight pp). He strengthened established programs, such as Social Security, and launched new ones, such as the Interstate Highway System, which was the single largest public works program in the nation's history (Dwight pp). During this Cold War era, Eisenhower often

..." Quirk is noted to have said that: "Many times in later years Castro spoke of his ignorance as a university student. He admitted to being a 'political illiterate' and had studied law, he said, not because he felt an attraction to the legal profession but because his family expected it." (Quirk; as cited by Escobar, 2004) Fidel Castro became involved in political activism and became a widely renowned orator

Strategies of ContainmentDuring the Cold War, the United States employed a geopolitical strategic foreign policy known as containment. This policy was adopted as part of the country�s efforts to prevent the spread of communism in the aftermath of the Second World War. This geopolitical strategic foreign policy was essentially geared towards the containment of the Soviet Union during this period. Strategies of containment adopted by the U.S. during the Cold

According to the papers, Pearson indicated concern about the nature of the bombing and questioned Johnson about the potential use of nuclear weapons. While Pearson appeared willing to acknowledge that conventional bombing raids would be used against the North, he was clear that the deployment of nuclear weapons would be considered entirely unacceptable by both the Canadian government and people. History has been critical for Pearson's handling of the situation.