My favorite Ike story is about how he got the Norks to capitulate.
Story is that the peace talks were not going so well. Ike had a low level puke at State talk to a low level French puke. The conversation was about The Bomb.
Our puke told the Frog that Ike would be willing to lend the Frogs an A-Bomb to resolve the French Indo-China issue. This was just a feelere, but. . . The French had been lobbying for support, and this was their response. The Frogs were severely compromised with Soviet spies, so this news was in Moscow probably before it was in Paris.
The Soviets called the Chinese. The Chinese called the Norks, and all of a sudden their was an accord signed.
Somebody told Ike on assuming the Presidency: figure out what conditions would cause you to drop The Bomb. When you are certain of your answer, tell no one.
This was how Ike used The Bomb.
The details of all this are in Ike's Bluff. I read it on the deer stand a couple of seasons ago. Good stuff.
