People called him "Ike." Not just his close friends -- everyone called
             him "Ike." He won a presidential election on the slogan, "I like Ike."
             In fact, Ike was very well liked. British Field Marshall Bernard
             Montgomery, Ike's British equivalent during World War II, didn't like
             American military leaders, but he liked Ike.
             "He has the power of drawing the hearts of men toward him as a magnet
             attracts the bit of metal," he said. "He merely has to smile at you, and
             Born in 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower won an appointment to West
             Point. However, he didn't serve as a battlefield officer until World War
             II, and for some years his career seemed stalled at the level of Lieutenant
             Colonel, his leadership potential apparently unrecognized (1).
             World War II changed that. Ike led the Allied forces on to Normandy
             Beach. Somehow he got all those young men, who wanted nothing more to go
             home to their wives, their mothers, their sweethearts, to instead ...
             charge a battery of machine guns ... on the sheer faith, inspired in them
             by Ike, that enough of them would get through to finally put an end to
             How did he get them to do that'
             Then, within five months of being elected, President Eisenhower --
             arguably the greatest soldier modern times has ever known -- brought an end
             to the Korean Conflict. How was he able to do that when Truman had failed'
             Possibly he was motivated because he knew just how awful war really is. He
             said about World War II, "Our pleasures were simple-they included
             survival." (2) This great warrior valued peace, saying, "There is no glory
             in battle worth the blood it costs." (2)
             But, as it turns out, he was not. By all accounts, he had quite a
             temper and really had to work to keep it under control sometimes (1). But
             more surprising was that this man who fought for Europe's
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