When Dwight Eisenhower decided to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 1952, obstacles loomed: His record as the hero of World War II might not translate well to a political ...

I worried, almost from the beginning of my research into the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, that something did not quite add up with Stephen Ambrose’s famous biography of the former president. I say ...

Dwight D Eisenhower lived a life marked by extraordinary success A West Point graduate whose military knowhow catapulted him through the US Army ranks Eisenhowers steadfast leadership helped turn the ...

John Rubinstein’s first encounter with 34th U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was not the one-man play that he performs around the country. “I met him in the White House when I was 8 or 9 years ...

On the long route to the White House Dwight Eisenhower experienced a life-changing occurrence at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. The year was 1915. Eisenhower, who was born in Texas but had grown up, ...

It was the first presidential election I remember: 1952, Eisenhower vs. Stevenson. I was 7 and a student in Mrs. Collins’ third-grade class at Corona del Mar Elementary School — a leafy, secreted ...

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