Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (“Ike”), a media-created WWII hero, embarked on one of the most consequential gaslighting projects in political history. That would be convincing the 1952 U.S. electorate that he was not a liberal Democrat creature of FDR, but was actually a conservative Republican anxious to unwind the New Deal and “clean up the mess in Washington.”

After stealing the GOP nomination at the 1952 convention, he embarks on a general election campaign with the seemingly anti-communist and actually committed internationalist Richard Nixon as a running mate. After two months of intense negotiations Ike also brings his cheated GOP rival Robert Taft on board, and then makes some effort to bump the ambitious Nixon off the ticket with the idea of adding a now compliant Taft to the ticket.

He also has the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allen waiting in the wings, to become Secretary of State and the head of the CIA respectively. Both were long time left wing internationalists, founders of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) who were mentored by the notorious Col. Edward Mandell House. But, suddenly, like Ike himself, they had sudden makeovers making them appear as rabid anti-communist rightwingers. But appearances in politics are frequently deceiving and in this case nothing could be farther from the truth.

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