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80 unusual facts about Dwight D. Eisenhower


1926 PGA Championship

Originally "Nassau County Park at Salisbury" in 1944, it was renamed Eisenhower Park in 1969.

Abdulkadir Sheikh Dini

In 1989, Dini continued his military studies in the United States, where he attended the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, whose alumni include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alexander Haig and Tommy Franks.

Alvin M. Owsley

Owsley remained in politics, but helping the Texas campaigns of Republicans Thomas Dewey and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

American Civil War Centennial

Neither Congress nor President Dwight D. Eisenhower were interested in a single, unified, national theme for the commemoration.

Ann Blyth

In the December 1952 edition of Motion Picture and Television Magazine Ann Blyth stated in an interview that she endorsed Dwight D. Eisenhower for president the month before in the 1952 presidential election.

Anne Williams Wheaton

On May 2, 1957, in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's office, Wheaton was sworn in as Associate Press Secretary at the White House.

Battle of Cannae

As Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II, wrote, "Every ground commander seeks the battle of annihilation; so far as conditions permit, he tries to duplicate in modern war the classic example of Cannae".

Camp Point, Illinois

Arthur S. Nevins (1891 - 1979), brigadier general in the United States Army, close friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower and manager of the Eisenhowers' Gettysburg Farm.

Carlotta Walls LaNier

The following day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent U.S. Army troops to accompany the students to school for protection.

Charles Collins Thompson

Of his many notable achievements, his appointment in 1957 by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower to chair the credit committee of the Drought Conference in Wichita, Kansas, was one of his proudest.

Charles F. Masterson

Thus, shortly after Inauguration Day, Val Peterson (former Governor of Nebraska) was appointed to a position as an Administrative Assistant to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

The park was established as a National Monument in 1961 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in order to preserve the neglected remains of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal along the Potomac River along with many of the original canal structures.

Christopher Herrick

Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Herrick was a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and attended its choir school; he sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and later that year went with the choir on a three-month tour of America which included a private concert in the White House and a meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

The Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organization was founded in 1956 in response to requests from President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his administration.

Cornelius P. Cotter

The idea for the committee grew from the concern of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other party leaders that if the GOP did not effectively articulate imaginative solutions to the challenges in both foreign and domestic policies facing America in the 1960s and 1970s, the party would face a series of defeats at the polls comparable to what happened in 1958.

DC: The New Frontier

Cameos from the likes of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon, as well as references such as the atomic testing, civil rights movement, and the Soviet Union, are done to give a sense of the era the series is set in.

Denmead

In the run up to D-Day many American and Canadian troops, including U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, camped under the cover of local forests.

Dial tone

When President Dwight D. Eisenhower retired in 1961 it was nearly universal, but the president himself had not been confronted with a dial tone.

Eisenhower House

Dwight D. Eisenhower used the house as his summer residence during his presidency in 1958 and 1960.

Eli Ginzberg

It was in this capacity that he became acquainted with General Dwight D. Eisenhower shortly after Eisenhower assumed the presidency there in 1948.

Elisabeth C. Draper

In 1948 she was hired by Columbia University to refurbish the President's House to make it ready for the new president of Columbia, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Elizabeth Ann Ray

Ray was stationed at the headquarters of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Algiers, Algeria, then in January 1944 was appointed commander of a WAC intelligence squadron at 15th Air Force Headquarters in Bari, Italy.

Eugene Figg

They are now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (About Inc.).

The act lacked proper funding and never lived up to expectations until Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.

Eugene Jarecki

Jarecki is also the founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy.

Fred A. Bantz

Fred A. Bantz (June 25, 1895 – September 22, 1982) was an official in the United States Department of the Navy during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Fred M. Manning

In 1948, Manning became acquainted with Dwight D. Eisenhower during one of Eisenhower’s visits to the Doud family in Denver.

Frederic Fox

In 1941 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the European Theater of Operations under General Dwight D. Eisenhower as a captain in the Signal Corps until 1945.

Gary A. Tanaka

He lives in London with his wife and two children in a house which was once Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime headquarters.

George Washington Lee

In the 1956 presidential election, Lee is credited with delivering Tennessee to Eisenhower.

George Washington-class submarine

On 12 February 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized funding for three ballistic missile submarines.

Greenhills Shopping Center

The Shopping Center is bounded by Ortigas Avenue on the west, Connecticut Street on the south, Club Filipino (also known as McKinley), Eisenhower, and Annapolis streets on the north, and Missouri Street on the east.

Grosvenor Chapel

The chapel has been the spiritual home to a number of famous people including John Wilkes, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington and his wife (parents to the Duke of Wellington), Florence Nightingale, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bishop Charles Gore.

Harry Benson

He has also photographed political figures, including every US president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, and covered war zones.

Henry the Hatter

Henry the Hatter received notable recognition after 34th president Dwight D Eisenhower wore a hat from the store at his inauguration.

Homer E. Newell, Jr.

In 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower assigned NRL responsibility to launch satellites during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), Newell was promoted to Acting Superintendent of NRL's Atmosphere and Astrophysics division, with an additional assignment as science coordinator for Project Vanguard.

Introduction to Outer Space

At first, a report of the President's Science Advisory Committee presided by Dr James R. Killian in the aftermath of the Sputnik 1 launch, Dwight D. Eisenhower found it so informative and interesting that he decided to make it available to everybody for 15 cents.

Jacket

Eisenhower jacket, a waist-length, fitted, military-inspired jacket with a waistband based on the World War II British Army's Battle Dress jacket introduced by General Dwight Eisenhower

Jacob Arvey

Arvey and his allies promoted the candidacy of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the plan failed when Eisenhower refused to run (in 1952 he revealed that he was a Republican and won the GOP nomination).

John H. Rubel

In 1959, still during the Eisenhower administration, Rubel was invited to become Assistant Director (to Herbert York) of Defense Research and Engineering in the Pentagon.

John Robert Greene

Major collections he utilized included the papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert Taft, the two main Republican contenders for the nomination, and the papers of Adlai Stevenson and John J. Sparkman, the Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Joseph C. Harsch

During the capture of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, Harsch, who had been traveling with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, translated for a British officer leading the arrest.

Lidingö Municipality

The initiative came from Alameda in 1959 and was part of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's people-to-people-movement.

Louis Finkelstein

He also offered a prayer at the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Main Duck Island

In 1941, John Foster Dulles, the future secretary of state for Dwight D. Eisenhower, bought the island as a summer place.

Melba Pattillo Beals

The Nine also faced mobs that forced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division to protect their lives after the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, used troops to block the Nine's entry to the school.

Melville Shavelson

He also wrote,produced and co-directed the six-hour ABC screenplay to the 1979 television miniseries Ike about Dwight D. Eisenhower, based on the World War II exploits of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.

My Science Project

A man, (President Dwight D. Eisenhower), enters to see the craft and simply orders his men to "get rid of it."

National Pony Express Association

This event attracted state and national attention with included the participation of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the issuing of a commemorative coin by the United States Department of Treasury and the United States Postal Service.

Nero Decree

Shortly afterwards, on May 7, 1945, General Alfred Jodl signed the German military surrender, and on May 23 Speer was arrested on the orders of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, together with the rest of the provisional German government led by Admiral Karl Dönitz, Hitler's successor as head of state.

North African World Series

The winners were presented with baseballs autographed by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the winning team received a trophy made from an unexploded Italian bomb.

Norwalk River

(The state-wide destruction prompted President Eisenhower to declare a disaster area in Connecticut.) The flooding caused the most severe damage of any flood in the history of Norwalk.

Paul Dudley White

Appointed as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's physician following his heart attack in 1955, White was a staunch advocate of exercise, diet, and weight control in the prevention of heart disease.

Pinus taeda

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, an Augusta National member, hit the tree so many times that, at a 1956 club meeting, he proposed that it be cut down.

Plant Field

During the 1952 Presidential Campaign, Dwight D. Eisenhower appeared at Plant Field.

Radio Swan

The importance of this island was in its location and proximity to the island of Cuba, because on March 17, 1960, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had approved covert action to topple the regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Resolution-class submarine

To address this problem, in May 1960 the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan arranged a deal with US President Eisenhower to equip the V bombers with the US-designed AGM-48 Skybolt.

Robert K. Gray

He was appointed Special Assistant to the President under President Dwight D. Eisenhower the following year.

Robert P. Burroughs

He served as committeeman from New Hampshire for the Republican National Committee during the 1940s and actively supported Dwight D. Eisenhower during the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns.

Ruth Volgl Cardoso

Ruth would have been trapped there, except that she had dinner with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who saw to it that Ruth would be allowed to escape to Brazil.

Sam R. Heller

Heller was also a friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower and helped make arrangements for Eisenhower’s visits to Abilene.

School of International Service

The School of International Service was created when AU's Hurst Anderson was urged by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to create a school of practitioners prepared for foreign policy beyond the U.S.–Soviet rivalry.

The founding of schools of international affairs was urged by President Dwight D. Eisenhower during the height of the Cold War.

Shilin Official Residence

During its history, the residence home has hosted famous guests and foreign dignitaries visiting Taiwan including then President of the United States of America Dwight D. Eisenhower and U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr.

In 1951, he was co-founder (with Charles F. Willis) of the Citizens for Eisenhower movement, which helped develop grass roots support for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

State of Katanga

This was highly relevant as the Republican, business-oriented “Europeanists” of the Eisenhower administration were part of a generation that had seen and internalised post-War Communist expansion, making anti-communism a norm in American governing circles.

The Angle

The nearby field along the Emmitsburg Road was also the site of Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as Eisenhower's 1918 Camp Colt, the 1938 Army Camp with the Secretary of War's quarters, and a WWII POW stockade.

The Late Captain Pierce

Worse, security for President-elect Eisenhower's sojourn to Korea makes contacting Pierce's father next to impossible.

The Reformed Church of Newtown

In 1956 Newtown celebrated her 225th Anniversary, and received greetings from President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Tom Nieporte

The biggest win of his career came in 1967 at the Bob Hope Desert Classic; the Champions Trophy was presented to Nieporte by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bob Hope.

Tommy Flowers

Flowers later described a crucial meeting between Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff on 5 June, during which a courier entered and handed Eisenhower a note summarizing a Colossus decrypt.

Tropico 4

The "loading" and "saving" screens have quotes from various dictators, leaders, politicians, and revolutionaries such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Augusto Pinochet, Nikita Khrushchev, Leon Trotsky, Mobutu Sese Seko, Todor Zhivkov, Vladimir Putin, Josip Broz Tito, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Turnabout Intruder

Originally scheduled to air at 10pm on Friday, March 28, 1969, the network pre-empted it at the last minute with a special report on former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had died earlier that day.

Vollrath

His terms as governor ran from 1951 through 1957, and he was heavily involved with the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 election.

W. K. C. Guthrie

Returning to Cambridge after the war Guthrie was much in demand in his capacity as Orator, called upon to deliver Latin encomia in honour of such dignitaries as Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Jan Smuts, Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Viscount Slim and General Montgomery.

Willard Thorp

Willard L. Thorp (1899–1992) was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs.

William G. Draper

From 1950-1952 he was the personal pilot for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, and later served as President Eisenhower’s personal pilot and Air Force Aide.

William G. Draper (June 28, 1920 – November 26, 1964) was a career military officer and Air Force Aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

William McChesney Martin

Martin was selected administrator-designate of the Emergency Stabilization Agency, part of a secret group created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 that would serve in the event of a national emergency and that became known as the Eisenhower Ten.

ZIL-111

For U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit, E. Molchanov designed a special version.


Amer Khammash

During his career, General Khammash met numerous Heads of State including every U.S President starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 and culminating with President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Armchair general

Dwight D. Eisenhower who had enlisted in 1911 was assigned to the Army War College and graduated in 1928 never served in combat, even during World War I holding mostly staff positions afterwards.

Balmer Lawn

The hotel has hosted many famous guests throughout history including King George V, Russian Royalty, J.J. Sainsbury, Winston Churchill and U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Cornelius Wendell Wickersham

Promoted up to Brigadier general, he was deputy to Lieutenant General Arthur Edward Grassett's, chief of European Allied Contact Section in the SHAEF staff of General Dwight Eisenhower.

Don C. Laubman

After witnessing an impassioned speech given by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 412 crossed the English Channel on 6 June 1944, covering the landings on Juno Beach.

Draper Committee

The Presidents Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance Program ("Draper Committee") was a bipartisan committee, created in November 1958 by U.S. President Eisenhower to undertake a completely independent, objective, and non-partisan analysis of the military assistance aspects of the U.S. Mutual Security Program (MSP).

Edmund D. Ellis

Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis (March 1890 - 1995) was a member of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1915 (the class the stars fell on) which included Henry Aurand, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John W. Leonard, Henry Sayler, James Van Fleet, and a number of other famous generals.

Emlen Etting

The 12-inch, 78 rpm, Asch 3 record English and French language set recorded the live speeches of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle on August 25, 1944, accompanied by the commentary of Welles and the translation and commentary of Etting.

Flag of the United States Navy

The flag was officially authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 24, 1959 and was formally introduced to the public on April 30, 1959 at a ceremony at Naval Support Facility Carderock in Maryland .

James Lambie

Before joining Dwight D. Eisenhower’s campaign staff in 1952 he worked for the National Committee for a Free Europe, Inc., and Crusade for Freedom.

Johnny Roventini

He shared a dinner table with General and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, clowned around with Red Skelton, sat ringside with fighter Jack Dempsey and participated in numerous parades and other public events.

Justin Colfax Morgan

On January 25, 1956, Morgan was nominated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of New York vacated by John Knight.

Lawton Nuss

He is a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, the Advisory Board for the Topeka-Shawnee County Youth Court, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law, the American Judges Association, and the Kansas Bar Association.

Leland Hobbs

He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York from which he graduated in June 1915, in the same class as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, James Van Fleet, Henry Aurand or Stafford LeRoy Irwin ("The class the stars fell on").

Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend

James Buchanan, whom Lincoln succeeded, retired to Lancaster Township; Dwight D. Eisenhower, whom Kennedy succeeded, retired to Gettysburg.

Nucular

U.S. presidents who have used this pronunciation include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush.

Operation Inland Seas

Task Force 47 (TF 47), a 28-ship detachment of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Edmund B. Taylor, sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to participate in the official opening of the Seaway by Queen Elizabeth II of Canada and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 26, 1959.

Other Losses

Other Losses is a 1989 book by Canadian writer James Bacque, in which Bacque alleges that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower intentionally caused the deaths by starvation or exposure of around a million German prisoners of war held in Western internment camps briefly after the Second World War.

Peter John Stephens

He was the brother of Richard Waring, the US-based actor, and son of Thomas E. Stephens, whose portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower hangs in the Smithsonian Gallery of Presidents and Evelyn Mary Waring.

Prince Albert Radar Laboratory

For this event, a recorded message by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was to be broadcast from the Millstone Hill site, reflected off the Moon, and received at PARL.

Red Wing Bridge

It is officially named the Eisenhower Bridge for Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States.

Sig Alert

Sigmon had worked for Golden West's station KMPC 710 in 1941, but found himself in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II, assigned to General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff, in charge of non-combat radio communications in the European theater.