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Eisenhower's close friend, investment dealer Clifford Roberts, referred to "Citizens for Eisenhower" as a name under which "all the mavericks can gather". [54] The "Ike for President" political advertisement by the Citizens for Eisenhower committee. Republican admirers coined the phrase "I Like Ike" (referring to Eisenhower's nickname, "Ike"). [55]
Dwight David Eisenhower [a] (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), also known by his nickname Ike, was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961.
Eisenhower won in 21 of the 39 cities with a population above 250,000. He won in six of the eight largest Southern cities. [36] The election was the first in which a computer, the UNIVAC I (and Monrobot III [37]), was used to predict the results; it came within 3.5% of Eisenhower's popular vote tally and four votes of his electoral vote total. [38]
"Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign in 1952. The minute-long animated advertisement was conceived by Jacqueline Cochran , a pilot and Eisenhower campaign aide, and Roy O. Disney of The Walt Disney Company , and ...
Eisenhower ultimately made his decision to run under strong pressure from supporters and polls showing that, as Smith puts it: “With Ike heading the ticket, the GOP would not only retain the ...
From March 11 to June 3, 1952, delegates were elected to the 1952 Republican National Convention.. The fight for the 1952 Republican nomination was largely between popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower (who succeeded Thomas E. Dewey as the candidate of the party's liberal eastern establishment) and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the longtime leader of the conservative wing.
Mar. 5—The Eisenhower Foundation received grant money to help fund a silo mural for the Bert and Wetta silo, owned by Carlton and Shari Bert. The Foundation is currently seeking designs for the ...
Eisenhower's candidacy was generated by a draft by the so-called "Eastern Establishment," led by Thomas E. Dewey and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. The nomination was narrowly secured when Dewey and Lodge out-maneuvered Taft in pre-convention fights over delegate credentials. Eisenhower won the general election and was re-elected in 1956.