The Cold War - Foreign Policy - Eisenhower and Kennedy Throughout the course of waging the Cold War, foreign policy, specifically Eisenhower's and Kennedy's remained similiar despite the fact that the war was a bipartisan undertaking. The overall policy by which the Cold War was defined was strikingly similar between both presidents. The ways in which the Cold War was carried on between the United States and Communism remained the same between both presidents. The handling of a major war development was continued throughout the span of Eisenhower's and Kennedy's terms. However, their aims in how to structure an offense were not as similiar a