ABSTRACT
In a larger sense, however, it was still the city of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Ike could not win by campaigning against the New Deal and did not try. Despite his rhetorical challenge to the administration’s foreign policy, he remained firmly in the tradition of the Eurocentric internationalism of FDR and Truman. The way in which he won the election of 1952 was actually an affirmation of the basic accomplishments of the Truman administration, though it was a repudiation of certain surface aspects of recent years — it was an attack on immediate issues such as the inconclusive Korean War, internal security, and petty corruption, none of which truly went to fundamental principles.
