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This is one in a series of 13 Yahoo News interviews with historians about defining moments in presidential leadership. The interviews were conducted by Andrew Romano, Lisa Belkin and Sam Matthews ...
The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 7 to 11, 1952, and nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike", for president and Richard M. Nixon of California for vice president.
Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and he was the oldest president-elect at age 62 since James Buchanan in 1856. [148] He was the third commanding general of the Army to serve as president, after George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant , and the last not to have held political office prior to becoming president until ...
"Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential campaign of 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 ...
The family of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, and his wife, Mamie, consists predominantly of German and Pennsylvania Dutch background. They are related by marriage to the family of Richard Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice-president, and was later the 37th president of the United States.
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David Eisenhower, grandson of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II, says Americans went to Normandy, France, 80 years ago to ...
The 1954 State of the Union Address was given by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, on Thursday, January 7, 1954, to the 83rd United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [3] It was Eisenhower's second State of the Union Address.