During our KC trip, we had a free day and decided to drive halfway across the state to visit Salina, the hometown of President Dwight David Eisenhower and the site of his presidential library.
I knew Ike was a war hero and served as a transitional figure between the FDR/Truman administrations and the young John F. Kennedy. However, Ike was a truly remarkable leader who never forgot his humble origins and the heartland that he came from.
His sense of decency, globalism, empathy, and leadership is unrecognizable in today's Republican party, and we should be so lucky as to have another national Republican official like him one day. I will not hold my breath!
More than anything, Ike was someone who always put his country and its success above his own aspirations. We could all stand to be a little more like Ike!
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