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Many people do not know that Eisenhower was appointed President of Columbia in the late 1940s.  He was a flop, and he knew it.  Later in life, he claimed that being a University President was the hardest job he ever had--harder than being Supreme Allied Commander or the U.S. President.  In those jobs, he said, he could give orders and they would usually be obeyed.  As the President of Columbia, he said, he couldn't make the engineering faculty agree on a new Dean.

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Many people do not know that Eisenhower was appointed President of Columbia in the late 1940s.  He was a flop, and he knew it.  Later in life, he claimed that being a University President was the hardest job he ever had--harder than being Supreme Allied Commander or the U.S. President.  In those jobs, he said, he could give orders and they would usually be obeyed.  As the President of Columbia, he said, he couldn't make the engineering faculty agree on a new Dean.