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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 1 Feb 2014

    Glimpse of Presidential transition--listless Ike, polite JFK w WH press secretary Hagerty, Dec 1960: #ErwittMagnumpic.twitter.com/xtCwCYsp57

    6:35 AM - 1 Feb 2014
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      2. Seth Grimes‏ @SethGrimes 1 Feb 2014
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        @BeschlossDC Why do you characterize Eisenhower as "listless"? This was the sort of canard that came to characterize his administration.

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      3. the official banafsheh‏ @IAmBanafsheh 1 Feb 2014
        Replying to @SethGrimes

        @SethGrimes @BeschlossDC he was very active plotting coups to install dictators in far off places. Listless he wasn't unfortunately.

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      4. Seth Grimes‏ @SethGrimes 1 Feb 2014
        Replying to @IAmBanafsheh

        @banafshehgh True, and a fine American tradition. Eisenhower->Mossadegh + Lumumba, Kennedy->Diem, Nixon->Allende. @BeschlossDC

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      1. Thomas E. Ricks‏Verified account @tomricks1 11 Feb 2014
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        @BeschlossDC @DrewErdmann Ike: 'Hmm. His father's a bootlegger who as US envoy in UK in Sept. '39 advised FDR to seek peace with Hitler.'

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      1. The Colonel‏ @ryanjharmon 4 Feb 2014
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        @BeschlossDC Jay Carney's idol

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      1. Michael Finberg‏ @Michael_Finberg 1 Feb 2014
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        The deadly transition @BeschlossDC The Turning-point NEAR.

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      1. Erick L Berg‏ @or2duck 1 Feb 2014
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        @BeschlossDC @banafshehgh @tfaucett @loyderII @jimthornton14 @slone C'mon Michael, we think better of you than that. #listless, nope #tbcot

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      1. Loyd Nitzen II‏ @loyderII 1 Feb 2014
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        @BeschlossDC Can you post pictures of POTUS @ the start of their term(s), AND show us the pix @ end of their term(s)? #howtheyhaveaged

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