 Eisenhower cut the military budget as soon as he took office. The CIA, the research reveals, sabotaged President Kennedy's effort to achieve detente with the Soviets in the final year of his presidency. Through the downing of Francis Gary Powers, U-2 overflight into the Soviet Union. President Eisenhower had a good definition of national security. He said, national security meant that the country was proceeding in peace and without a deficit.