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Leadership Lessons from our 34th President
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:40 pm MST | 11:40 am PST
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If the question is, “Who was the greatest American leader of the 20th century?” it would be hard to answer with any name other than “Dwight David Eisenhower.” Yes, admirers of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt can make a case for their being the premier political leaders of their eras, but Ike can match the Roosevelt cousins in politics and then raise them one with his military accomplishments as the victorious Supreme Allied Commander in World War II.
Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan has had a long run as an esteemed political consultant, historian, and think-tank leader. Now in her late sixties, she decided now was the time to write the equivalent of a textbook on leadership, as personified by the career of her historic ancestor, in
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