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Dwight D. Eisenhower Posters
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Thirty-Fourth
President (1953-1961)
Born: October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas
Died: March 28, 1969 in Washington D.C.
Married to Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
 LIFE® - President Eisenhower & Wife in Car during Inaugural Ceremonies, 1957 (silver gelatin photograph) 8.50x10.25in. Print |
LIFE® - President Eisenhower & Wife in Car during Inaugural Ceremonies, 1957 (silver gelatin photograph) 10.50x13.25in. Print |
LIFE® - President Eisenhower & Wife in Car during Inaugural Ceremonies, 1957 (silver gelatin photograph) 14.50x19.25in. Print |
 Eisenhower and Churchill Inspect Troops, 1944 20.00x16.00in. Photograph |
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LIFE® - President Eisenhower & Wife in Car during Inaugural Ceremonies, 1957 (silver gelatin photograph) 18.50x23.00in. Print |
Eisenhower and Churchill Inspect Troops, 1944 14.00x11.00in. Photograph |
Eisenhower and Churchill Inspect Troops, 1944 24.00x20.00in. Photograph |
 LIFE® - General Eisenhower Watching Tanks at Practice Range, 1944 (silver gelatin photograph) 14.50x19.25in. Print |
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LIFE® - General Eisenhower Watching Tanks at Practice Range, 1944 (silver gelatin photograph) 18.50x23.00in. Print |
 LIFE® - Eisenhower During a Good Will Tour, 1959 (silver gelatin photograph) 13.25x10.50in. Print |
LIFE® - General Eisenhower Watching Tanks at Practice Range, 1944 (silver gelatin photograph) 10.50x13.25in. Print |
LIFE® - Eisenhower During a Good Will Tour, 1959 (silver gelatin photograph) 23.00x18.50in. Print |
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LIFE® - Eisenhower During a Good Will Tour, 1959 (silver gelatin photograph) 10.25x8.50in. Print |
LIFE® - Eisenhower During a Good Will Tour, 1959 (silver gelatin photograph) 19.25x14.50in. Print |
LIFE® - General Eisenhower Watching Tanks at Practice Range, 1944 (silver gelatin photograph) 8.50x10.25in. Print |
Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the
victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower
obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to
ease the tensions of the Cold War. He pursued the moderate policies of
"Modern Republicanism," pointing out as he left office, "America is today
the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world."
Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the
third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an
appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met
Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.
In his early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under
Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After
Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war
plans assignment. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in
November 1942; on D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops
invading France.
After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave
to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951.
Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run
for President in 1952.
"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan; Eisenhower won a sweeping victory.
Negotiating from military strength, he tried to reduce the strains of the
Cold War. In 1953, the signing of a truce brought an armed peace along the
border of South Korea. The death of Stalin the same year caused shifts in
relations with Russia.
New Russian leaders consented to a peace treaty neutralizing Austria.
Meanwhile, both Russia and the United States had developed hydrogen bombs.
With the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world,
Eisenhower, with the leaders of the British, French, and Russian
governments, met at Geneva in July 1955.
The President proposed that the United States and Russia exchange blueprints
of each other's military establishments and "provide within our countries
facilities for aerial photography to the other country." The Russians
greeted the proposal with silence, but were so cordial throughout the
meetings that tensions relaxed.
Suddenly, in September 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver,
Colorado. After seven weeks he left the hospital, and in February 1956
doctors reported his recovery. In November he was elected for his second
term.
In domestic policy the President pursued a middle course, continuing most of
the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, emphasizing a balanced budget. As
desegregation of schools began, he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas,
to assure compliance with the orders of a Federal court; he also ordered the
complete desegregation of the Armed Forces. "There must be no second class
citizens in this country," he wrote.
Eisenhower concentrated on maintaining world peace. He watched with pleasure
the development of his "atoms for peace" program--the loan of American
uranium to "have not" nations for peaceful purposes.
Before he left office in January 1961, for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged
the necessity of maintaining an adequate military strength, but cautioned
that vast, long-continued military expenditures could breed potential
dangers to our way of life. He concluded with a prayer for peace "in the
goodness of time." Both themes remained timely and urgent when he died,
after a long illness, on March 28, 1969.