WM. F. BUCKLEY JR.
Why this book? Mr. Eisenhower is a public-spirited man and feels the average man’s desire for self-justification. Put the average man in the White House, as we recently did, and the desire for self-justification will spill over into a very long book, even as happened with the quintessentially reserved Mr. Coolidge. Yet while it may have satisfied Mr. Eisenhower to write this volume, it will not greatly satisfy the people who read it, except perhaps those who are truly reassured to know that anyone can be President.
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