One Presidency to the next

As several other people have already said, I would have to agree that I was skeptical when I began this book due to the time span that it covers. One thing that I came to be impressed with was the way that McMahon managed to transition between the presidents and the policymakers. I also really enjoyed how each administration viewed what was going on and how they felt about the world at the time. One example of this is on page 45 when McMahon explains the Truman administrations apprehension about Southeast Asia.
The differences between administrations was sometimes quite blatant. The Eisenhower administration dealt more with Soviet threats then those before them, we got to see differences and similarities.