Dwight D. Eisenhower
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
34TH PRESIDENT
BACKGROUND
- Born October 14,1890
- Raised in Denison Texas
- Parents moved from Abilene, Kansas to Denison Texas before he was born
FAMILY
- Born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower
- Was third to his parents seven sons
- Family lived in a tiny house by the railroad tracks
- Father cleaned trains engines for a living
EDUCATION
- United States Military
- Academy at West Point
- Abilene High School
- Command and General staff
MEMBERS OF CABINET
- Vice President - Richard Nixon
- Secretary of State- John Dulles,Christian Herter
- Treasury- George Wilson, Robert Anderson
- Defense- Charles Wilson, Neil McElory, Thomas Gates
- Attorney General-Herbert Brownell, William Rogers
YEARS IN OFFICE
January 20, 1953- January 20, 1961
QUOTES
- There must be no second class citizen in this country
- The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both
- know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field
LATER LIFE
- Following his presidency, Eisenhower retired to a farmhouse in Gettysburg with his wife, Mamie
- He also kept an office at Gettysburg College for the remainder of his life
- Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington
FUN FACT
- Eisenhower served in the Philippines from 1935 to 1939 with Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
- After the war, Eisenhower served as army chief of staff from Nov. 1945 until Feb. 1948, when he was appointed president of Columbia University.
MAJOR EVENTS WHILE IN OFFICE
- End of the Korean War (1953)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Interstate Highway System Created (1956)
- Eisenhower ordered Federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce integration (1957)
- Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)
