Conspicuous in their absence from Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan this week was any direct mention of Democratic presidentiallions like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman and John F. Kennedy.
But Obama did reference a Republican presidential stalwart, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and therein lies a beautifully told tale by my friend Robert Stein about one of the toughest decisions that Ike ever had to make not in war or the Oval Office, but in retirement.
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