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The first wife of a vice president to have an office in the building was Marilyn Quayle, wife of Dan Quayle, vice president to George H.W. Bush. [citation needed] The Old Executive Office Building was renamed the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building when President Bill Clinton approved legislation changing the name on November 9, 1999.
Eisenhower centered his transition planning at the Commodore Hotel in New York City, which had been the location of his presidential campaign headquarters. [ 8 ] [ 12 ] [ 22 ] Eisenhower's transition effort was largely funded by the Republican National Committee , [ 8 ] [ 20 ] A number of wealthy designees Eisenhower had named for appointed ...
Eisenhower button from the 1952 campaign. President Truman sensed a broad-based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, and he again pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat in 1951. But Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican. [139]
"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 ...
Project Candor or Operation Candor was a public relations campaign run by the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower.The thought behind the campaign was to inform the U.S. public of the facts as to the armaments race and the government's official analysis of those facts. [1]
When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, most political experts rated Taft and Eisenhower as about equal in delegate vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by both Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Texas and Georgia, and claimed that Taft's leaders in those states had unfairly ...
His campaign team collected 13.5 million email addresses during the 2008 election. [20] Voters who opted in to be on this email list received information on his platform and how to support his campaign. Once in office, Obama was the first president to use email as his main method of communication with senior staff, advisors, and close friends. [21]
Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as the 34th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1953, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican from Kansas, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.