Eisenhower: Soldier, General, President - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY

[@TheColdWarTV]

At 13:52 we said "Eugene Mccarthy" instead of "Joseph Mccarthy". Sorry.

[@rafimuhammadzakaria482]

Thanks for clearing up this life long misconception of mine.

[@Apollo1989V]

We have reverse McCarthyism in Hollywood and corporate America today.

[@RonaldReaganRocks1]

The only real "mistake" that Eisenhower made was not realizing, like Reagan did, that if we simply outspent the Soviets, they would collapse. Reagan had SSDI ("Star Wars" as the Democrats deridingly called it), to spend "too much" money on. I wonder what Ike could have "over spent" on, and beat them. Interesting hypothetical. Nikita Khrushchev himself admitted in his autobiography that if America outspent the Soviets on their military, the USSR would collapse.

[@the_ratmeister]

@@RonaldReaganRocks1 Regan's military spending didn't kill the USSR, a series of long term crises, one of which was the spending from the arms race, killed the USSR.

[@mishapurser4439]

I'd love to see an episode on the USA's policy towards socialist countries and countries possibly becoming communist today. Such as how pressure is put on Vietnam to adopt neoliberal policies rather than allowing them to build a socialist society.

[@victorcachat]

He really was a symbol of America in the 50's. Does that make him an Ike-on ?

[@sinisterminister6478]

Good one.

[@MrRenegadeshinobi]

I see what you did there

[@victorcachat]

@@MrRenegadeshinobi Damn, Ike couldn't fool you.

[@lucaskalebef]

Nice

[@imback1770]

I am surely an icon

[@danielbower2069]

Very good overview of the Eisenhower presidency, although there are a couple key items missing. One is the interstate highway system that pretty much every American uses today. Ike got the idea for this from two experiences. First, he went on a two-month long trip with a military convoy across the US in 1919 to test the viability of moving military troops by roads across the US. The second experience was seeing the German Autobahn during WW2 and recognized that that was how the Germans were able to quickly move troops from one front to another. The second major item missing is Ike's relations with Khrushchev and the cooling of tensions in the late 1950s, so much so that Khrushchev toured the US and met Ike at Camp David and was taken to Ike's farm at Gettysburg (the official National Park Service site for the Eisenhower's). Ike was then scheduled to visit the Soviet Union but little issue with a U-2 spy plane put an end to that before it began

[@rafimuhammadzakaria482]

@carl frederick semmelhaack-browne Can you please try to be more concise?

[@bbmtge]

Simply repeating something you read in order to appear intelligent.

[@TimDutch]

The German autobahn was not build to move troops. That's a common misconception.

[@iKvetch558]

How they could do a video about Ike's Presidency and NOT mention Sputnik is disappointing. 💯

[@stephenteng6239]

Civil rights? Sending troops to Little Rock?

[@SirHenryMaximo]

In 1919 Ike was assigned to a an Army motorized convoy, travelling from D.C. to San Francisco, to test the U.S. road infrastructure. The convoy averaged 8 kilometers, 5 miles, per hour, and the travel was almost impossible! After this personal experience, and witnessing the Autobahn during the war, it's no surprise President Eisenhower championed the U.S. Interstate Highway System.

[@bbmtge]

Another fool.

[@DerDop]

@@bbmtge ?

[@larryhall2805]

That's a good point, though I wish Ike would have been more supportive of rail transport. It was a time of decline for both freight and passenger rail.

[@jamiengo2343]

@@larryhall2805 I think rail transport, whilst important, is more restrictive compared to trucks and cars. We saw this during the war when the army with the most trucks was able to move the quickest. Trains are more restrictive, you can only go from A to B and that’s it.

[@larryhall2805]

@@jamiengo2343 Yes, that is true, Jamie. Yet, I believe as a country we would have been better off with BOTH our Interstate roads & maintaining our rail options. Road transport is, as you stated, more flexible, where as rail transport more efficient. With the intermodal aspect seen today we are experiencing a good hybred. However, our urban traffic problems are horrendous! They're polluting, time wasting and grossly inefficient. I believe our rail capacity can do much to relieve this problem.

[@MrJonnielights]

"...not you Coast Guard." gave me a proper laugh.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

Even civilians are taking sides in the inter-service rivalry.

[@christopherconard2831]

Coast Guard cutters with a equivalent of a Davy Crockett nuclear cannon. Stop smugglers and help people on the beach get that all over healthy tanned look at the same time.

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

"I nominate General Dwight Eisenhower for the Republican candidacy of President of the United States!" Eisenhower: "You what now!?"

[@BygoneChina]

Eisenhower was the most prophetic of American presidents - he warned of the military industrial complex, but but nobody listened.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

You mean, after he helped create said complex with his arms race and foreign shenanigans in the name of US interests...

[@bbmtge]

Try not to buy into the things people say rather what they actually do.

[@TheKeithvidz]

did their bidding overthrowing govts. Ask Iran.

[@jvbutalid8316]

he probably tried to control the military industrial complex, and that's awesome especially since he'd been a soldier himself, but the monster got too huge for him i guess

[@tpxchallenger]

Of course they listened. Check out the 1960s and 70s.

[@Perkelenaattori]

2:10 The whole Bonus March was just such a terrible moment in American history which is also very much forgotten.

[@danielbower2069]

"Huugggeee… tracts of land". I see the reference you made there lol

[@daniyalamed2960]

"General Maglomaniac McArthur" lol

[@robkrauss8890]

I laughed out loud at "Not you, Coast Guard." Love the dry humor you always include

[@jovanweismiller7114]

My Dad was a veteran of the European Theatre (Hq&Hq Sqdn, 8th USAAF). In 1952, he would have voted for Eisenhower for God if he ran. Unfortunately, he died in August, so he didn't have the chance. When Ike died, I lived in Topeka, KS. They brought him home to Abilene on a train. It passed through Topeka at about 2AM. Despite the hour, and the cold temperatures, there were two or three hundred people on the platform to honour him. We were all standing round, drinking coffee, smoking, and chatting. When the train came into sight, silence fell. Men came to attention and removed their hats. Everyone stood silent as the train rolled through. Probably my most poignant memory was a cartoon that I think Bill Mauldin did. It was a 'Flanders Field' of veterans' graves. Over the crosses a whisper was shown, 'Pass the word, it's Ike himself'.

[@Martijn_Steinpatz]

When you can handle dozens of diva generals, you can handle the US presidency.

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

The Cold War, can you please make a video on the history of Thailand during the Cold War. Thank you very much.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

The Coast Guard called and wants to know why it's not getting any nukes.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell" - Karl Popper

[@chrissnyder8538]

His warning about the "Military Industrial Complex" proved to be prophetic, as many of us have found out.....

[@ligayamatira2164]

We Wish to Feature about the Philippines under President Ferdinand E. Marcos

[@freddthurman3935]

Yep. I would like to learn more about how he fucked up our country.

[@juanpabloperelmuter690]

Eisenhower: soldier , general, president , chad

[@1701basil]

One of only 9 dude's to earn the 5th ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I appreciate how they postumesly promoted washington to 6th Star So no other man or woman could outrank him

[@ColdHighway7]

He also had a good relationship with Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov

[@DerDop]

Well, Zhukov was a smart man. Zhukov, Chuikov.

[@larryhall2805]

@@DerDop From what I read about General Z, he was a military genius! I hate dictators but the fact is the Soviet people clawed the guts out of the Wermacht.

[@DerDop]

@@larryhall2805 you should also read about C. A fantastic human.

[@larryhall2805]

@@DerDop Thank you! But who is CA?

[@DerDop]

@@larryhall2805 Chuikov.

[@nicholaskelly6375]

He might not have liked Richard Nixon but his Grandson Dwight David Eisenhower II liked Mr Nixon's daughter Julie so much that he married her.

[@antoniogerardogiampaolo259]

Another superb job. I´m impressed. Thank you

[@WhiteCamry]

Not mentioned: in the lone significant 1952 Democratic win Kennedy ousted Lodge - he who had first entered Ike, unbeknownst to himself, in the New Hampshire primary - from his Senate seat.

[@parthamittra9058]

This idea that Ike won the 1952 Republican nomination without much active intervention from him (your clear implication) is laughable. Remember Senator Robert Taft? He came to the convention with 600 delegates while Eisenhower had ~400 ,the Ike forces forced through the Fair Play amendment (an ironic name) which disqualified numerous Taft delegates and added Eisenhower ones. This defeat is very significant because Eisenhower felt that Taft (who was more an isolationist) would ruin our international standing. So Ike did not just sit and wait for the people to come to him he actively campaigned to defeat Taft and get the nomination in 1952

[@poonczey]

"...the United States would be able to deter security threats without need of a massive military budget." ahahahahaha

[@babbar123]

I didn’t realize how serious this channel is till I watched this video. Subscribed :)

[@jamescutright919]

Great job. Thanks!

[@johnzeszut3170]

Ike had what it took - somehow he was able to deal with Montgomery and Patton and still win the Second War. And he did a good a good job of running America. Yes I like Ike!

[@mikhailv67tv]

Great show David

[@Christopher-po8pt]

I wish we had someone of this caliber to be president now.

[@CA999]

Might be interesting to do his counterpart in domestic us politics General Douglas MacArthur? I think he had presidential aspirations and his own ideas on foreign policy too.

[@chasemurraychristopherdola7108]

Just saying but I can already tell that I am really going to love this video and the reason is because my paternal grandmother went to school with President Eisenhower’s granddaughter.

[@dancingstupidity1448]

What's the music at 14:00? It's bugged me for ages.

[@alanlawson4180]

"Huge.... tracts of land" Extra kudos for the Monty Python reference :)

[@memofromessex]

Please can you cover France and its Cold War shenanigans! 😊

[@cjthegood]

"We like Ike!" Who likes Ike? 😁

[@rx7carl]

Nice Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference hahahaha

[@jeffmoore9487]

@ 10:25 The vid says: US aid to the French was blocked by Congress contributing to the French defeat (Dien Bien Phu) in 1954? Nope! In 1951 Truman authorizes $15,000,000 for French forces in Vietnam. Also 1951 The MAAG (Military Advisory Assistance Group) is created in Saigon to coordinate aid to the French. In1953 Ike sends 150,000 tons of equipment to the French. In 1954 Just the USAF alone gave 140 F6F and F8F fighters, 41 B26 bombers, 27 C47 transports, maintenance assist, and bombs. Trucks, ammunition, and training came through the army. When France lost at Dien Bien Phu it was French soldiers + predominantly American equipment.

[@LordMekanicus]

My old GC, Tom Cobb, once worked in the motor pool at Lowry AFB. If I recall correctly in 1959, Eisenhower was in the area and the presidential limousine broke down at Lowry. Tom spent most of the night and the next morning scraping up the parts needed, and repairing the car so Eisenhower wouldn't be late for his next stop. After the tour had ended, Ike returned to Lowry to meet the "wrench" who saved his ass, even offered Tom a medal. Tom politely refused and shook his hand. "Sir? I was only doing my job."

[@Numba003]

Eisenhower is one of those important presidents I don't know enough about. I appreciate this video, and I would enjoy seeing more on Eisenhower in the future. Thank you! God be with you out there everybody! ✝️ :)

[@drgabe2908]

I like Ike!

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

and so do I.

[@grahamhufton7715]

love the subtle Monty Python reference

[@beachboy0505]

Great video 📹 👍

[@james_baker]

Good video, great president. Sure could use you now.

[@andrewsharp8700]

This is great history channel for anyone

[@trevorthai1685]

Why was the U2 Spy Plane Incident not mentioned?

[@quasicroissant]

Otherwise a decent president, but I don't love his foreign policy doctrine of orchestrating a coup against anyone that looked at him funny

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

☝️🙏🙏 correct this will be huge mistake

[@hy2024-e1g]

@@ShubhamMishrabro And the effects are still felt today.

[@08jag81]

The film @3:42 is Hap Arnold not Eisenhower.

[@joshualeslie]

What is the music that plays in the background towards the end of these videos?

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Ahh yes, back when the Democrats and the Republicans were on better terms with each other.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nice video on this famous President. Probably the greatest Political General ever. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.

[@Vrelk]

I still like Ike.

[@jackryan5214]

Cool video, actually reading, Maximalist by Stephen Sestanovich , right now. He is an interesting man, just doing background research for some cites, had my personal views on Truman and Eisenhower's backgrounds or the opposite of each individual.

[@zanenobbs352]

What is the music at the beginning and end of each episode? Great job on President Eisenhower!

[@matthewlivermanne4441]

We need leaders like him now.

[@fermentillc]

Its a huge conundrum. Absolute fedral power or freedom. We see what happened.

[@peterthehappywaiguoren]

"I like Ike, You like Ike, We like Ike... Ike"

[@clanpsi]

I'll always remember Ike as the man who single-handedly destroyed rail travel in North America.

[@leps69]

8:50 i love that acting. We just had to do it :D

[@tedslaughter169]

Hahaha "HUGE TRACTS OF LAND"

[@michaelsinger4638]

Eisenhower. The last GREAT Republican President imo.

[@HondaWagovan]

Ike was one of the best presidents we had last century, both parties need to be more like Ike. Yes he had his flaws and really bad policies. Particularly terrible ideas and actions being what we did to developing countries like Iran, lots of fallout we are still dealing with today from that one. But otherwise Ike was a stellar President.

[@artwerksDallas]

He went after Pancho villa under Black Jack Pershing

[@ThatGuyWhoLivesinChina]

Nike-Herc at 8 minutes!!!! Thank you.

[@lucasjleandro]

Won the War and be President: Washington, Scott, Grant, Ike

[@cebenify]

Don't forget Jackson

[@finnhobart9100]

Scott was never President. Zachary Taylor was though. Switch out Scott for him?

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

29 out of 46 Presidents serve in the military...

[@finnhobart9100]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 But not that many were famous generals beforehand (Nixon, for example, served in the military but never went too high up in the command chain).

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@finnhobart9100 So, does that diminish their service? Rutherford "I won the Presidency, I swear!" Hayes was Brigadier General before becoming (a very forgettable) president. While Abraham Lincoln only serve in the Illinois State militia and did world-changing things...

[@CharlesVaughn-bm9gq]

He hardly sailed to nomination. It was a fight with Taft and close.

[@kevinbourke1847]

Ike for president 🇺🇸

[@beachboy0505]

In the partition of the Indian subcontinent, the British outmaneavour the Americans and bought about an earlier British exit than even the people of India expected. Yankee traders were banned from Indian subcontinent since 1814. After WW2, the Americans demanded equal parity with Empire Preference in India. The British thought they would be swamped and their interest would be usurped by better American goods and services, so they quickly gave independence to India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

[@luishernandezblonde]

I wish the United States to be led by a strongman like Eisenhower. This man was badass.

[@pbyguy7059]

Soldier, General, President, dude who couldn't keep in his pants and out of his secretary

[@Idahoguy10157]

Eisenhower was an excellent staff officer. Which kept him out of command.

[@blacklight4720]

13:52, Eugene or Joseph? I was sure Joe Macarthy is the responsible for Red Scare.

[@karoltakisobie6638]

Us could use another Joe Mccarthy today. Reds not only multiplied but are running things in Washington.

[@sinisterminister6478]

@@karoltakisobie6638 You should really stop playing with that home lobotomy kit.

[@captaindak5119]

@@sinisterminister6478 he should keep playing with so he hopefully loses the ability to spread more nonsense on the internet.

[@sinisterminister6478]

@@captaindak5119 Can't argue with you there Captian.

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Looking at Trump and Biden, it makes me wish Eisenhower were back from the Great Beyond and in charge.

[@RigbyWilde]

I vote for the Coast Guard to be using atomic artillery

[@BRANFED]

Ill just like to point out that It was Stalin will and personality that kept the Korean war going.. His death had a much greater impact on ending the Korean war, than any policy the Eisenhower admin put forth. Without stalins 'cult of personality', the will and the resolve for NK and China to continue with the war,dissolved.. remember, it was Stalin that gave NK leader the go ahead for the invasion in the 1st place and I wanna say,that stalin greatly influenced china entering the war as well.. KG!

[@Game_Hero]

Diefenbaker next?

[@James_BAlert]

Ike was an avid amateur break dancer in his spare time......😀

[@jaredpresley4602]

Algorithm. You should have more than 200k subscribers

[@internetpleb4854]

It still surprises me when I learned that Ike became president

[@maninthemiddleground2316]

3:45 Did I hear you “new deal democrats and moderate republicans so similar in their positions”?? 😅 No wonder USA was very strong then. Strong enough to fight Communism! Hope the USA will heal and be unitted again. 🙏 even though the world doesn’t know it yet ... there’s a need for a strong and united USA. As a future with Communist Chinese hegemony is fast becoming scary nightmare 😢

[@Paciat]

If you think China is communist today you shouldnt touch politics at all. Leave the books that describe the world as it was half of a century ago and watch a youtube channel of someone actually working then.

[@maninthemiddleground2316]

@@Paciat ... hey I ain’t the one who calls them Communist. Their own leadership call themselves communist. Anyway, will indulge your “points” ... what is to be communist? One party system ... check A military under the communist party not the people ... check A political system with no checks and balance .... check Press Media controlled by government (propaganda) ... check Propaganda and indoctrination pervasive in all sectors of society... check In my book ... if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... While it is true, that the chinese model doesn’t follow marxist leninist ideology from an economic standpoint. The only reason why it is even “strong” now because they adapted western/capitalistic model aka “Capitalism with Chinese characteristics”. Had it not opened its economy in the 70s communist China would have collapsed even earlier than USSR ir at the very least they would be as insignificant as they were in the 70s meaning though they were pawns a big pawn at that they were still just pawns. If you wanna know what a true democratic China is ... you need not look far. Just look at Taiwan 🇹🇼. Lastly, I may not know all there is to know about politics but I am sure that if you think China isn’t communist then what are they? Democratic?? Well then I am sure as heck that I know more about it than you.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@maninthemiddleground2316 I mean, those can be found in any other system, especially under monarchy and dictatorship. So at best, PRChina is just a Red version of a Chinese imperial absolute monarchy with the President as the Almost-Emperor just like it was 5000 years ago...

[@maninthemiddleground2316]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 sorry ... your reply started with “I mean ...” you normally say that if you said something prior which you are elaborating. Unless you’re also “paciat” which I replied to. Nevertheless, reading through your reply. To some extent I can agree to this. You’d be hard pressed to find a difference in way of rule and life imperial china and red china now. With the exception of their Xenophobia and its utter disregard for human rights for their own people i.e. sure the emperors treated their subjects badly too but the CCP has taken it into a whole new level. Uighurs and Falun Gong come to mind. However, it is what it is ... Red China calls themselves communists and apart from their “Capitalism with Chinese characteristics” or better called “Communism with Capitalist characteristics” they are communists. Period. They are “capitalists” now just to get enough money to survive and probably thrive while maintaining their power base.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@maninthemiddleground2316 About as Commienist as the suits their Politburo wears...

[@jankowalski3496]

You don't mentions about U2 crisis.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

I know this president.

[@rafimuhammadzakaria482]

I know it's stupid but I really feel he was the George Washington of the 20th Century. We need another one in this 21st century.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

He is anything but George Washington, especially in foreign politics. George Washington doesn't fund or orders coups against any country that looked at the US funny...

[@rafimuhammadzakaria482]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 You have a point though we should keep in mind that Washington got a country that just got liberated and isolationist in nature. So he can't go bellicose right out the back. Eisenhower on the other hand, got a nation committed to a global competition for influence. That nation can't help but be bellicose in nature. But I admire the fact that both men cultivated popular support through military service and had universal popularity. That's a good start if one wishes to get things done.

[@krystalcz9251]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 Yeah I don't like the coups either but, if you consider them and the USSR and China's literal concentration camps, occupations, mass executions and the everlasting state police trying to destroy your life-heck they would even kill people who didn't do anything against their party(communist one that is) so that the rest would fall in order-I am a Czech(former socialist republic of Czechoslovakia) and I would happily escape to the USA from my country, which was a literal nightmare at this time in the history...so what I am trying to say that there are worse things than foreign coups, but that doesn't change the fact that they are bad.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@krystalcz9251 You do know it was in the Eisenhower Presidency that Hungary threw off the Soviets and asked the US for help... And the US did nothing...

[@rafimuhammadzakaria482]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 USA did considered to intervene but decided not to. They feared a nuclear warfare breaking out and for intent and purpose, they were right to be anxious.

[@PYRESATVARANASI]

Ohh yeah 😎

[@BHuang92]

9:16 Definitely not gonna backfire in future..........

[@jerrynelson5289]

Imagine Eisenhower try to build the Interstate highway in today Republicans which is a central planning not maket driven.

[@MrManBuzz]

IKE would be labelled as a "communist" by modern Republicans. Hell, they call a neoliberal like Obama communist, just imagine what they'd call Eisenhower.

[@macariomatira3234]

We Wish to feature about the Death of Francisco Franco

[@followerofjulian1652]

Ike, we need you! "I Like Ike!"

[@jerrywatt6813]

I wish we had a man like IKE now he was the last honest strong and fair minded president we had before the MIC and CIA gained control of washington !

[@carlbyronthompson]

Python! YES!

[@pewdsthrowaway1303]

Eisenhower

[@NathanS__]

Huuuge.... tracts of land. Very good.

[@natasharuiz3318]

I know it but Eisenhower because I go there too I go to school to middle school and it's called Eisenhower ❤️❤️❤️💘💘💘

[@bluestrife28]

So Johnson was the Mitch of his time huh? 😂

[@rocketsurgeon1349]

Feels like he was the last president with the American people as priority number one, but what do i know, i'm just some random dude from Europe.

[@BRANFED]

that speech Eisenhower made about the MIC as he was almost out the door is ironic to say the least..where was this concern about all this influence from the MIC before? Not sure why people cant see that speech for the BS it was.. even to this day, people consider it a great speech.. I do not however and consider it a hypocritical speech at best..

[@BVargas78]

I like Ike.

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

The only electoral turnout that was worse, was 1984 Reagan v Mondale lol

[@TaylorPrem]

I’m so crazy I’m going to vote for Eisenhower next election.