JFK+50: Volume 7, No. 2471
EISENHOWER BORN 127 YEARS AGO
Denison, Texas (JFK+50) 127 years ago, October 14, 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower* was born here in Denison, Texas.
Richard M. Nixon, who served as Eisenhower's vice-president from 1953-1961, eulogized the 34th President of the United States by saying...
"For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation and yet he remain(s) the world's most admired and respected man..."
Eisenhower, elected to the presidency in 1952, and re-elected in 1956, retired to his home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as one of the most popular chief executives in our history. The Republican campaign slogan, "We Like Ike," was true for the majority of Americans during the 1950s.
President John F. Kennedy conferred with former President Eisenhower several times during his tenure in the White House. JFK visited personally with Ike at his Gettysburg farm in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs and called him during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
*Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was born in Denison, TX and grew up in Abilene, KS. Known as Ike, he graduated from West Point in 1915 and served in both world wars. DDE married Mamie Geneva Doud of Boone, Iowa.
DDE was Supreme Allied Commander in Operation Overlord in WWII & led allied armies in landing at Normandy in France. After the war, Ike served as president of Columbia University and was appointed Supreme Commander of NATO forces by President Harry S Truman in 1951.
SOURCES
"Dwight D. Eisenhower", www.onthisday.com/
"Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president and decorated general, dies at 78 in 1969," by William Twaddell and James Wieghart, New York Daily News, March 27, 2016 (March 29, 1969), www.nydailynews.com/
JFK and Eisenhower
EISENHOWER BORN 127 YEARS AGO
Denison, Texas (JFK+50) 127 years ago, October 14, 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower* was born here in Denison, Texas.
Richard M. Nixon, who served as Eisenhower's vice-president from 1953-1961, eulogized the 34th President of the United States by saying...
"For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation and yet he remain(s) the world's most admired and respected man..."
Eisenhower, elected to the presidency in 1952, and re-elected in 1956, retired to his home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania as one of the most popular chief executives in our history. The Republican campaign slogan, "We Like Ike," was true for the majority of Americans during the 1950s.
President John F. Kennedy conferred with former President Eisenhower several times during his tenure in the White House. JFK visited personally with Ike at his Gettysburg farm in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs and called him during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
*Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was born in Denison, TX and grew up in Abilene, KS. Known as Ike, he graduated from West Point in 1915 and served in both world wars. DDE married Mamie Geneva Doud of Boone, Iowa.
DDE was Supreme Allied Commander in Operation Overlord in WWII & led allied armies in landing at Normandy in France. After the war, Ike served as president of Columbia University and was appointed Supreme Commander of NATO forces by President Harry S Truman in 1951.
SOURCES
"Dwight D. Eisenhower", www.onthisday.com/
"Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president and decorated general, dies at 78 in 1969," by William Twaddell and James Wieghart, New York Daily News, March 27, 2016 (March 29, 1969), www.nydailynews.com/
JFK and Eisenhower
Camp David, Maryland
April 22, 1961
Photo by Robert Knudsen
NARA Image
