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Learn about General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s life and military career. Read about President Eisenhower’s election, time in office, policies, and...
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Legacy and Post-Presidential Life Though U.S.-Soviet relations remained relatively cordial throughout his presidency, including a summit meeting with Premier Nikita Krushchev in 1959, the Soviet shooting of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane in May 1960 dashed Eisenhower’s ...
events over the next few months would bring President Nasser and the Middle East to the forefront of American foreign policy. To understand the actions taken by Nasser during the early years of the Cold War, it is important to understand the events and forces that shaped his early life and ...
He does not explain how he dealt with this problem during his presidency. After all, Eisenhower gave important posts to John McCone and Robert Anderson, two key figures in the “Military-Industrial Complex”. He was also the president who succumbed to the pressures of Tommy Corcoran to order...
Post-presidency Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield atGettysburg,Pennsylvania. In 1967, the Eisenhowers donated the farm to the national park service and since 1980 it has been open to the publi...
Presidency 总统生涯 Although he declared himself a Republican, Eisenhower was a political moderate in many of his ideas. He continued some of thedomestic[4]policies of former presidentsFranklin RooseveltandHarry Truman. 尽管艾森豪威尔声称自己是共和党人,但他的许多政治观点都倾向于中立。他延续了前任总统...
Eisenhower, A Soldier’s Life (2002), 848 pages; a major military biography; excerpt and text search Greenstein, Fred I. The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (1991), highly influential study by political scientist Greenstein, Fred I. "Ronald Reagan. Another Hidden-Hand Ike?" PS:...
Although Eisenhower’s life and presidency have been the subject of abundant scholarly study, the family details and flowing style of How Ike Led make a special contribution to our understanding of him as a person and as a leader.” —Dr. Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, MIT Read more ...