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The airport, which opened in 1962, is named after John Foster Dulles, an influential United States Secretary of State during the Cold War who briefly represented New York in the United States Senate. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The airport's main terminal is a well-known landmark designed by Eero Saarinen , who also designed the TWA Flight Center at John F ...
John Foster Dulles. John Foster Dulles[a] (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under president Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949.
Allen Dulles. Allen Welsh Dulles (/ ˈdʌlɪs / DUL-iss; April 7, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an American lawyer who was the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest serving director to date. As head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the early Cold War, he oversaw the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the ...
John Foster Dulles was, I would argue, a man of integrity whose name should stay where it is. He was President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s close friend and advisor, and served as a revered secretary ...
Dulles opened in December 1962 and was named after John Foster Dulles, who served as secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. Show comments.
Designated VLR. June 27, 1995 [ 7 ] Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA, ICAO: KDCA, FAA LID: DCA) is a public airport located in Crystal City, in Arlington County, Virginia, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) from Washington, D.C. It is the closest airport to Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, the 24th-busiest airport in the ...
In the 36-year span from 1865 to 1901, three U.S. Presidents died by an assassin’s bullet: Abraham Lincoln (1865), James Garfield (1881) and William McKinley (1901). Sixty-three years later ...
Dulles covers roughly the southwestern third of Sterling, Virginia (another unincorporated community). The usage of Dulles as a community name began in the mid-1980s when Loudoun County economic development officer Pam Treadwell successfully lobbied [1] the United States Postal Service to allow Sterling businesses and residents to use Dulles as an alternative address.