re: #365 can’t think of a decent username

I don’t think it’s a spoiler. He’s just terrifically smart and a powerful sorcerer. Almost every time Nixon has anything to do with him, Ike sees through everything he’s trying to say and often puts some sort of magical whammy on him.* On the first few pages, Nixon speculates that Ike was stitched back together from some wartime accident and probably wasn’t human anymore.

* Just about every American president gets initiated as a wizard (empowered by the Constitution, which is encoded with magic spells. The further back you go in history, the more terrifyingly powerful they are.

Sounds like a good Kindle purchase. Not good enough to buy paper but good enough for electrons.