I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

I Don’t Like Ike by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.:

"Indeed, the entire Cold War ideology was invented by Harry Truman and his advisers in 1948 as:

1.) a political trick to keep from losing more congressional backing,

2.) a way to circumvent political pressure for postwar disarmament, and

3.) a method to maintain U.S. industrial dependence on government spending, particularly with regard to American corporations operating overseas.

It was an unprecedented form of peacetime socialism, designed to appeal to big business, and Eisenhower became its spokesman.

Savvy libertarians knew exactly what was going on and supported Cold War opponent Robert Taft for the Republican nomination in 1952.

But the nomination was effectively stolen by Eisenhower, with massive establishment backing. He repaid his backers with his support and expansion of Truman’s program."