A review by judyward
Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969 by Julie Nixon Eisenhower, David Eisenhower

3.0

An affectionate look at President Dwight Eisenhower after he left the White House in January 1961 and went into retirement at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. As David Eisenhower notes, former presidents have to carve out their own roles in retirement. The Kennedy administration increasingly tried to distance itself from the Eisenhower administration, while, ironically, President Lyndon Johnson often turned to Eisenhower for advice and counsel after becoming president in late 1963. In 1964, Eisenhower felt that Barry Goldwater was unqualified to be the Republican candidate for President and was only a lukewarm campaigner. The Eisenhower and Nixon families where brought closer togeher--Eisenhower often held Nixon at arm's length when Nixon served as his Vice-President--when David Eisenhower married Julie Eisenhower just after the 1968 election. This book combines an examination of Eisenhower's views of politics and current events during the turbulent 1960s with a grandson's relationship with a loving, but exacting, grandfather.