Eisenhower's account of his experiences as president.

Includes index.

Prelude to politics -- Candidate -- Campaign : trains and planes -- A changed world, formation of a cabinet, a mission to Korea -- New duties, new faces -- Trouble in NATO, Suez, Iran, Indochina -- Korea : the end of bloodshed -- The platform : promises to keep -- Some early decisions -- With Churchill and Laniel in Bermuda : atoms for peace -- Life in the white house : tricycles in the corridor -- The Executive and the Congress -- Problems of internal security -- Chaos in Indochina -- Power : electrical and political -- Three hurdles cleared : Western Europe, Trieste, Guatemala -- Off-year election, 1954 -- A new look at America's defenses -- Formosa doctrine -- Laws for a changing America -- Meeting at Geneva -- Heart attack -- Election-year politics -- Second beginning.