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Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Korean War


            In the 1952 presidential campaign, Dwight Eisenhower prided himself on finding a solution to the War in Korea. In Eisenhower's campaign for his Republican Presidential nomination, he strongly countered his Republican opponent, Robert A. Taft's non-interventionism ideology, and vowed to crusade against "communism, Korea, and corruption " (Hayes). Once Eisenhower was elected to represent the Republican party in the 1952 presidential election, he made it a point to criticized President Harry Truman and his administration's handling of the war in Korea. After his victory, Eisenhower followed his promise to go to Korea, and was convinced that something new was needed to be done in order to discontinue the gridlock that had been in place since the first peace talks beginning in July of 1951. Despite many efforts from the Eisenhower administration to use military and psychological warfare, as well as efforts to work with their South Korean allies, July of 1953 came with little to no progress. On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed by all sides involved in the conflict, agreeing to end the bloodshed and come to agreeable terms. Three days before this signing, on July 24th, President Eisenhower reflected upon this Korea situation in his personal diary. This diary entry reveals an extreme amount of frustration with South Korea's President, Syngman Rhee, and serves to provide a strong historical context regarding the position of the United States in the Cold War during the early 1950s.
             First and foremost, the nature of this diary entry must be examined for a full historical perspective. Eisenhower's diary is not merely a notebook with bullets and notes jotted down in passing. These entries are in paragraph form, with formal writing containing great detail and explanation. Eisenhower thoroughly goes through each step in his thought process, even though he does not necessarily have to. For example, he includes the United States' reason to go into Korea "only to repel aggression, and not to re-unite Korea by force " (p.


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