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Dwight David Eisenhower, also known as Ike, was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. In his previous military career, he led the Allied Expeditionary Force during the Second World War, launched decisive campaigns in North Africa and Normandy and became a General of the Army.
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politics · World War II general, U.S. president from 1953 to 1961 · politician · writer · military officer · statesperson · military personnel · army officer · also Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisenhower, Ike, Dwight Eisenhower, Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, President Eisenhower
Born 14 October 1890 · Died 28 March 1969 · Q9916
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a great soldier... quick, tough, tireless and a real leader. He accepts responsibility automatically and never goes back on a subordinate.
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
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“a great soldier... quick, tough, tireless and a real leader. He accepts responsibility automatically and never goes back on a subordinate.”
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“this war would absorb our troops by divisions.”
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“not available for and could not accept nomination to high political office”
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“from dogcatcher to Grand High Supreme King of the Universe”
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“not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest”
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The Times of India: In 1950, US former president Eisenhower bought a 189-acre Gettysburg farm for retirement. 17 years later,
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Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said the following after witnessing the aftermath of Nazi war crimes committed during the Holocaust: "Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some b****** will get up and say that th…” Incorrect Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."” Correct Attribution.
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USA Today rated the claim “NYT backing Harris is first presidential endorsement since Eisenhower” False.
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Full Fact rated the claim “The American Eisenhower aircraft carrier was targeted by Yemen for a second time in the last 24 hours, at the end of August.” This isn’t correct. According to live maritime tracking, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier is off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia in the US..
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USA Today rated the claim “The corporate tax rate under Eisenhower was 90%” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight.”” False.
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“is one of those things that will be healthy and sound only if it starts locally. I do not believe that prejudices, even palpably unjustified prejudices will succumb to compulsion. Consequently, I believe that Federal law imposed upon our States... would set back the cause of race relations for a long, long time.”
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“d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. As quoted in Baseball”
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Eisenhower was buried inside the Place of Meditation, the chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Center in Abilene
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Died 1969-03-28.
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Eisenhower died from congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D
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The day Nixon was inaugurated as President, Eisenhower issued a statement praising his former vice president and calling it a "day for rejoicing"
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“To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.”
“Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.”
“you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it's usually called 'assault'— not 'leadership.”
“The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.”
“I believe that the United States as a government, if it is going to be true to its own founding documents, does have the job of working toward that time when there is no discrimination made on such inconsequential reason as race, color, or religion.”
“The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others.”
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington — not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.”
“We were depending on considerable assistance from the insurrectionists in France. Throughout France the Free French had been of inestimable value in the campaign. ... Without their great assistance the liberation of France and the defeat of the enemy in Western Europe would have consumed a much longer time and meant greater losses to ourselves.”
“Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.”
“The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.”
“Um povo que valoriza seus privilégios acima dos seus princípios, cedo perde os dois.”
An autopsy revealed an undiagnosed adrenal pheochromocytoma, a benign adrenalin-secreting tumor that may have made him more vulnerable to heart disease
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“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
His gallbladder was removed, containing 16 gallstones
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After Eisenhower's presidency had ended
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That "Fox Conner was the ablest man I ever knew
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Awarded Horatio Alger Award (1961).
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Eisenhower gave his final televised Address to the Nation from the Oval Office
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Won Hoover Medal (1960).
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Awarded Order of the Royal House of Chakri (1960).
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An Ad Hoc Panel on Man-in-Space concluded that "man-in-space can not be justified" and was too costly
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Complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked; however, his physician, Snyder, recalled that before dinner at the prime minister's manor house Chequers the next day, Eisenhower "drank several gin-
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Became the first president to travel on a jet plane when he flew aboard the VC-137A aircraft that would be designated as Air Force One and which replaced the Columbine as the presidential aircraft
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In part due to Strauss's role in the Oppenheimer matter
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When Eisenhower suddenly found himself unable to move his right hand or to speak
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Awarded Nishan-e-Pakistan (1957).
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Gaining the Cold War enemy enormous prestige
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Arkansas refused to honor a federal court order to integrate their public school system stemming from the Brown decision
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Following the Soviet launch of Sputnik, Eisenhower led the American response which included the creation of NASA and the establishment of a stronger, science-based education via the National Defense Education Act
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Awarded Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero (1956).
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Was Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier
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Having previously ousted American reporters after the PRC's founding
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Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57
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While vacationing in Colorado, he had a serious heart attack
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“Remarks to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (22 April 1954)”
“Address at the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Evanston, Illinois (19 August 1954)”
“Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1954), p. 435”
Advocating for constructive use of nuclear fission for electrical energy and nuclear medicine instead of nuclear arms race proliferation
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By Francoist Spain and the United States, was a significant effort to break international isolation of Spain, together with the Concordat of 1953
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Considered using nuclear weapons to end the Korean War and may have threatened China with nuclear attack if an armistice was not reached quickly
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The French asked Eisenhower for help in French Indochina against the Communists, supplied from China, who were fighting the First Indochina War
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1953–1961).
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Effective January 19, 1953, the day before his inauguration
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And he resumed his presidency of Columbia
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Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican, in part to block the presidential prospects of Senator Robert A
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1952–1953).
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And became a pioneer in international security studies, one that would be emulated by other institutes in the United States and Britain later in the decade
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Career landmark: Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1951–1952).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator General San Martin (1950).
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Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, an Ivy League university in New York City, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
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Campaign: 1948 presidential election.
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Eisenhower said he was "one of the most deeply religious men I know" though unattached to any "sect or organization"
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“one of the most deeply religious men I know”
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Won American Defense Service Medal (1947).
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Won European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1947).
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Won Army of Occupation Medal (1947).
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Won World War II Victory Medal (1947).
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Career landmark: Participated in Hostages Trial (tournament / event).
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Awarded Order of Ismail (1946).
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Awarded Order of Aeronautical Merit (1946).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross (1946).
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By Public Law 333 of the 79th Congress, which also awarded full pay and allowances in the grade to those on the retired list
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That the Soviet Union did not want war and that friendly relations could be maintained; he strongly supported the new United Nations and favored its involvement in the control of atomic bombs
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Awarded Croix de Guerre (1945).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown (1945).
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Awarded Order of Victory (1945).
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Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (1945).
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Awarded Order of the Elephant (1945).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1945).
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Awarded Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (1945).
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Awarded Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 (1945).
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1945).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1945).
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Eisenhower, through SHAEF, commanded all Allied forces, and through his command of ETOUSA had administrative command of all US forces on the Western Front north of the Alps
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“Gen. Eisenhower was reported by the Dutch radio Saturday to have told Dutch newspapermen there was”
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Truman told Eisenhower during the Potsdam Conference that if desired, the president would help the general win the 1948 election, and in 1947 he offered to run as Eisenhower's running mate on the Democratic ticket if Mac
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Career landmark: Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1945–1948).
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Was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies
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Eisenhower was appointed to the rank of General of the Army, placing him in the company of George Marshall, Henry "Hap" Arnold, and Douglas MacArthur, the only four men to achieve the rank in World War II
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As a temporary rank, subject to reversion to permanent rank six months after the end of the war
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Awarded Order of Suvorov, 1st class (1944).
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Awarded Africa Star (1943).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1943).
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the order of Nichan Iftikhar (1943).
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Awarded Legionnaire of Legion of Merit (1943).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Wissam Alaouite (1943).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1943).
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Returned to London as Commanding General, European Theater of Operations (ETOUSA), based in London and with a house in Coombe, Kingston upon Thames, and took over command of ETOUSA from Chaney
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And obtained his private pilot's license in 1939 at Fort Lewis
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Eisenhower accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines, where he served as assistant military adviser to the Philippine government in developing their army
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And later served on the faculty (it was later expanded to become the Industrial College of the Armed Services and is now known as the Dwight D
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Participated in the clearing of the Bonus March encampment in Washington, D
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Studied at United States Army Command and General Staff College (1925–1926).
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Their second son, John Eisenhower, was born in 1922 in Denver.
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Won World War I Victory Medal (United States) (1919).
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To a transcontinental Army convoy to test vehicles and dramatize the need for improved roads
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Won Mexican Border Service Medal (1918).
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While stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Funston convinced him to become the football coach for Peacock Military Academy; he later became the coach at St
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Studied at United States Military Academy (1911–1915).
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Second Lieutenant Eisenhower requested an assignment in the Philippines, which was denied; because of the ongoing Mexican Revolution, he was posted to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, under the command of General
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When he tried to tackle the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians
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The family moved to Abilene, Kansas, which Eisenhower considered his hometown
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The third of seven sons born to Ida and David
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Born 1890-10-14.
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In Lecompton, Kansas, on the campus of their alma mater, Lane University
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A funeral train would not be part of a US state funeral again until 2018
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