nkind has entered upon an historic struggle for a new freedom: a freedom from the grinding poverty. New nations were emerging, or struggling to emerge, from the wreckage. Most had not been prepared by their rulers for independence. Many had raw materials unavailable elsewhere, particularly oil and minerals that were crucial to the Western industrial system. All of the new nations appeared to be more or less in danger of falling to the Communists. (Ambrose 376) In this speech, Ike made a strong statement, to defend that in which is weak. It is in this time that we begin to see the strength of our nation as a super power and lender to those whom need it. This Doctrine will lead to many fights and struggles that many people believed had nothing to do with America. They did not think about that every time they filled their gas tank on a frosty morning. He passed that Doctrine to make sure that the country in which his grandchildren would play was safe, and could prosper. To many Americans this is the thing that showed Ike’s character the most. He lifted this nation to a new level of thinking, as we where sought for the first time around the world, as the police men of international affairs.(Ambrose) Dwight Eisenhower passed away when he was seventy on March 26, 1969. Ike may have been a farm boy raised by hard country values, but it was these values that made him the most admired man in the country two years after his presidency ended. He stood on the grounds of Africa and defended this world against dictatorship. He was the man that made sure his high school would have a football team during his senior year. He was a man that made a bold statement to not only defend the freedom of the nation in which he lived, but for any nation that wanted the freedom he had....
