About the Program
Jim Newton, columnist and editor-at-large at the Los Angeles Times, recounts the tenure of America's 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961). The author refutes the commonly held criticism that President Eisenhower was complacent by citing his transformation of an $8 billion deficit to a $500 million surplus, the creation of an interstate highway system, and the President's constant refusal to utilize the atomic bomb when pressured by his generals. Jim Newton speaks at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum in Abilene, Kansas.