Just prior to leading Allied troops in an invasion of North Africa in 1942, General Dwight Eisenhower made an astute observation about the nature of leadership. He wrote, "I firmly determined that ...

They thought the plan too risky, and shelved it in favor of an invasion of North Africa designed to drive out the Germans and Italians. Eisenhower, who had never led a single soldier into combat ...

Eisenhower dispatched federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect African-American students after Central High School was desegregated. He explained that he had a solemn obligation to enforce ...

"Intervention by other nations in their internal affairs would deny them that right and create a focus of conflict in the heart of Africa." All the while, however, the Eisenhower administration ...