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Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Born In Denison, Texas, on October 14, 1890• Republican• Graduated from West Point• Was supreme commander of the Allied Troops
in Europe commanded D Day invasion• Nickname “Ike”
Ike Post WW II
• Became President of Columbia Univ.
• 1950 Truman Created The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and appointed him to head NATO
• 1952 was persuaded to run for President
“I Like Ike”
• Ran with running mate Richard Nixon
• Nixon got in trouble had to give “Checkers speech”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LcAJOsFGg
• Beat Adelie Stevenson twice
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCDaXeDRI4
Civil Rights
• Worked Behind the scenes to discredit McCarthyism
• Did not support initially support Brown v the Board of Education
• Did send troops to Arkansas to support desegregation of Schools
• Signed legislation that provided protection to African-American Voters
Foreign Policy
• Signed an Armistice ending the Korean War• Supported the CIA in covert opps. against
communist• Supported Anti-Communist Government in
Vietnam• Held a summit with Nakita Khrushchev in 1959
to talk peace• Lost favor of the USSR in 1960 when US spy
plane was shot down
Domestic Policy
• Achieved numerous legislative victories despite a Democratic majority in Congress
• Continued New Deal and Fair Deal, • Strengthened Social Security• Increased the minimum wage• Created the Dept. of Health Education and
Welfare• Created the Interstate highway system
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMtmXllf9w