> And the coup of Arbenz in Guatemala...
Context seems to have been lost sight of here. The point was not to canonize Eisenhower, but to compare him to his successor; the starting point was somebody's observation that JFK just 'continued' Eisenhower's legacy. In fact it seems to me that Mattress Jack was unquestionably *worse* than Eisenhower, bad as the latter was.
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Any proposition that seems self-evident is almost certainly false.