" President Eisenhower signed the REIT tax provision contained in the Cigar Tax Excise Tax Extension in 1960.

Because the segment from Interstate 294 to Illinois 53 was built last, that portion of the highway is referred to as the Eisenhower Extension.

Several highways are also named for him, including the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) near Chicago and the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.

** Interstate 290 ( Illinois ), a portion of which is officially named the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, or " the Ike "

Ramp metering was first implemented in 1963 on the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) in Chicago by Adolf D. May, now a UC Berkeley professor.

The tracks emerge from a portal near Halsted Street in the median of the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ) and continue west.

The line turns north near Paulina Street stopping at 18th and Polk Streets then curves east over the Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate 290 ).

The Kennedy's official endpoints are the Circle Interchange with Interstate 290 ( Eisenhower Expressway / Congress Parkway ) and the Dan Ryan Expressway ( also I-90 / 94 ) at the east end, and the O ' Hare Airport terminals at the west end.

Until 1978, the Kennedy Expressway was marked as Interstate 94 and Illinois 194, Interstate 90 and Interstate 190 replaced Illinois 194 and thus the Eisenhower Expressway was renamed from Interstate 90 to Interstate 290.

The Eisenhower Expressway was then renumbered as Interstate 290.

The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops — the country follows the doctrine of " armed neutrality " with all males required to have military training — a number that General Eisenhower estimated to be about 850, 000.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

In the midst of the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was severely short of replacement troops for existing military units — all of which were totally white in composition.

* Papers of Joseph W. Carlson ( an officer with the Army Corps of Engineers at Normandy Base Section ( 1944 )) — Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Three Cold War United States Presidential doctrines — the Truman Doctrine, the Eisenhower Doctrine, and the Nixon Doctrine — played roles in the formulation of the Carter Doctrine.

The Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate-290 )-- formerly the Congress Expressway — is the primary highway between Chicago and Oak Park.

In response, General Eisenhower — in an attempt to spare De Gaulle's forces heavy casualties during his initiative — granted the Free French forces the honour of spearheading the Allied assault and liberating the capital city of France.

Satellite summit Boott Spur and then the Montalban Ridge including Mount Isolation and Mount Davis extend south from it, while the higher Southern Presidentials — Mounts Monroe, Franklin, Eisenhower, Pierce, Jackson and Webster — extend southwest to Crawford Notch.

" Eisenhower turned red, took a breath and replied evenly " Brad, I — not you — am responsible to the American people.

Bradley used the advantage gained in March 1945 — after Eisenhower authorized a difficult but successful Allied offensive ( Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade ) in February 1945 — to break the German defenses and cross the Rhine into the industrial heartland of the Ruhr.

Former Eisenhower cabinet member Ezra Taft Benson — a leading Mormon — spoke in favor of the John Birch Society, but in January 1963 the LDS church issued a statement distancing itself from the Society.

Most importantly for U. S. Army forces, the II Corps commander — Lloyd Fredendall — was relieved by General Eisenhower and sent to a training command assignment for the remainder of the war.

Throughout its three iterations — in the 1950s, the 1970s, and the 2000s ( decade ), it influenced the Presidential administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, and is still active.

* Eisenhower Center / International Field Study — A program designed for students to travel abroad while earning college credit.

The public-opinion pressure generated by the UFC disinformation campaign compelled President Eisenhower to become involved in the private-business vs. national-government quarrel of the United Fruit Company, lest he appear to be “ soft on Communism ” in Guatemala — a serious personal imputation and great political accusation of which the American public took serious note, especially during the McCarthy Era.

Krueger asked for — and got — Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower assigned to him as his chief of staff.

For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation ; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.

Most were named Person of the Year either the year they were elected or while they were in office ; the only one to be given the title before being elected is Dwight D. Eisenhower, who won it in 1944 as Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion Force, eight years before his election.

In addition to the " Inside " series, Gunther wrote eight novels and three biographies, most notably Bright Nemesis, The Troubled Midnight, Roosevelt in Retrospect ( published in 1950 ) and Eisenhower, a biography of the famous general released in 1952, the year Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President.

He also helped design deep air raid shelters, eight of which were attached to existing stations such as Goodge Street tube station ( which also housed a signals centre used by General Eisenhower to direct the D-Day landings in Normandy in 1944 ).

The theory states that after eight years of exposure to the American defense establishment as President, Eisenhower knew that a disproportionate amount of influence rested in the hands of the ST, and he warned the public that this influence threatened the purity of American democracy.

Stephen Ambrose, at the time director of the Eisenhower center at the University of Orleans, also organized a conference of eight British, American, and German historians.

The result of this conference was a group of papers by these eight historians published in 1992 as the book Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts against Falsehood which strongly disputes virtually every claim in James Bacque's book, including his categorization of " other losses ", their purported origination, Bacque's description of the DEF designation decision, Bacque's oral histories, Bacque's methodologies and Bacque's analysis of World War II documents.

Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York.

Dwight D. Eisenhower participated in the highly publicized Transcontinental Motor Convoy in 1919 and after becoming President the experience influenced the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 that included 41, 000 miles of highways.

The Eisenhower Expressway, extension included, is 23 miles ( 37 km ) long.

The southern two miles ( 3 km ), between Courtney Campbell Causeway and Hillsborough Avenue ( on the west side of Tampa International Airport ), upgraded Eisenhower Boulevard to expressway standards with frontage roads and is not tolled.

File: David Eisenhower in Camp David. jpg | David Eisenhower ( age 12 ), grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, poses with sign at presidential retreat named in his honor, 1960

* February 12 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U. S. advisors to South Vietnam.

Old control tower ( front view ) during the visit of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Prague on 12 October 1945

On December 12, 1959, Tijerina sent a letter signed by some eighty families asking President Eisenhower to investigate the land claims.

U. S. Generals Dwight Eisenhower | Eisenhower, Omar Bradley | Bradley and George Patton | Patton inspect a cremation pyre at the camp on April 12, 1945, after liberation

The ghastly nature of their discovery led General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, to visit the camp on April 12, with Generals George S. Patton and Omar Bradley.

As a delegate, Burns played a key role in lobbying for Hawaii statehood, a goal that was achieved on March 12, 1959, when the statehood bill was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

On October 12, 1927 Eisenhower married Helen Elsie Eakin ( 1904 – 1954 ), with whom he had a son, Milton Stover Eisenhower, Jr. ( born December 11, 1930 ; died December 7, 2002 in Alexander City, Alabama.

Arthur Sherwood Flemming ( June 12, 1905-September 7, 1996 ) was United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare between 1958 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Eisenhower cabled Marshall on November 12, 1942 “ I bless the day you urged Fredendall upon me and cheerfully acknowledge that my earlier doubts of him were completely unfounded ”.

Eisenhower, in notes dictated to Harry C. Butcher on December 12, 1942 said that “… Patton I think comes closest to meeting every requirement made on a commander.

* February 12, 1955: President Eisenhower sent the first U. S. advisers to South Vietnam.

The term " massive retaliation " was coined by Eisenhower administration Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a speech on January 12, 1954.

This survey of students in grades K through 12 began in 1956, when readers chose Dwight Eisenhower over Adlai Stevenson.

The flag was officially adopted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on June 12, 1956, with Executive Order 10670.