claim: during the eisenhower administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
author: doris kearns goodwin
evidence_1: no cities in the united states were besieged, not a single bomb was dropped by  an enemy airplane on any of our 48 states, no part of our population was  enslaved, ... america would lose slightly more than 400,000 soldiers (killed or  missing) and almost no civilians during world war ii and the ussr, depending  on which ...
evidence_2: eisenhower retired from active service on may 31, 1952, upon entering politics.  he wrote crusade in europe, widely regarded as one of the finest u.s. military  memoirs. during this period eisenhower served as president of columbia  university from 1948 until 1953, though he was ...
evidence_3: soldiers of the soviet union and the united states did not do battle directly  during the cold war. but the two superpowers continually ... before his  inauguration, jfk was briefed on a plan drafted during the eisenhower  administration to train cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. the plan  anticipated that support ...
evidence_4: but during the spring of 1953, u.s. officials attempted to send indirect hints to the  chinese government that eisenhower might expand the war into china or even  use ... mao zedong often questioned the credibility of u.s. threats and insisted  that the chinese could withstand any losses that came from a nuclear attack.
evidence_5: dec 16, 2012 ... less well understood is that eisenhower devoted himself to keeping the military  industrial complex, as well as the war hawks, under control during his eight-year  presidency. [pullquote]. ike was smiling, genial, and easy to underestimate. he  liked it that way. by exercising patience, not a little deviousness, ...