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endorsement he needed. Every time he was asked about Nixon's
role in presidential decision-making, Ike would insist that he alone
made all the decisions, based on his own judgment. Yes, Nixon
voiced his opinion at meetings, but only the president had "the
decisive power." Ambrose suggests that Eisenhower may have
been miffed by Nixon's refusal to take his advice about avoiding
a television debate with Kennedy. In my opinion, though, Ike's
thoughtless remarks to the press reflected his top-down managerial style. He was annoyed by the reporters' insinuations that anyone could share decision-making authority with the commander
in chief. An apprentice, however apt, was still an apprentice.

the post-protestant moment ?
Patrick J. Deneen
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
by Joseph Bottum (New York: Image, 2014)

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n An Anxious Age, Joseph "Jody" Bottum offers a capacious,
unfailingly generous, always lively, and often correct if ultimately insufficient account of the course of American Christianity
over the past half century. His book joins other important recent
works that attempt to account for a perceptible change in our
national character, notably The Twilight of the American Enlightenment by George Marsden (a Protestant version of Jody's study;

Patrick J. Deneen is David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of
Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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