Temper.............................

      In times of stress, perhaps the greatest struggle Ike had to contend with was the desire—the imperative—to control his temper:  "Anger cannot win," he wrote in his diary in 1942.  "It cannot even think clearly . . . for many years I've made it a religion never to indulge myself, but yesterday I failed."

-Susan Eisenhower, How Ike Led:  The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions