http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-what-suez-crisis-can-remind-us-about-us-power/2013/01/25/e3a3ca5e-6682-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html

What the Suez crisis can remind us about U.S. power

By David Ignatius, Published: January 25

Chuck Hagel means it when he describes himself as an “Eisenhower Republican.” He kept a bust of President Dwight Eisenhower in his Senate office for a dozen years and has a portrait of Ike on the wall of his current office at Georgetown University.

But the most compelling evidence of Hagel’s fascination is that he purchased three dozen copies of an Eisenhower biography

 and gave copies to President Obama, Vice President Biden and then-Defense Secretary Bob Gates, according to the book’s author, David Nichols.