Experts in psychosocial development claim that the experiences we have between the ages of 12 and 15 shape our values, world view, and beliefs. When I was that age, the President of the United States was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Because of that and the fact that he was the first Republican my parents ever voted for, my visit today to the Eisenhower Museum and Library in Abilene, Kansas, was especially moving. Eisenhower is the quintessential American success story, one of seven sons born on the wrong side of the tracks in a small Midwestern town who went on to become a military hero as leader of the Allied forces in Europe during World War Two, worked alongside figures like Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle, and served two Presidential terms during a time of both prosperity and unrest. Those who were part of the Greatest Generation—men and women who fought and won the Second World War—saw “Ike” as one of them and rewarded him wi...
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