First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.

* 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

* 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his " domino theory " speech during a news conference.

One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

Clinton remained popular with the public throughout his two terms as President, ending his presidential career with a 65 % approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating of any President since Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Built before strict federal Interstate Highway standards were developed during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, the expressway was plagued by tight turns, an excessive number of entrances and exits, entrance ramps without merge lanes, and continually escalating vehicular loads.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Camp David received its present name from Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson, both named David.

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

Image: NSC_meeting. jpg | President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets with his National Security Council at Laurel Lodge, 1955

* Digital documents regarding Camp David, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

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In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

Chiang with U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1960.

General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the United States Army by Nicodemus David Hufford III.

The Supreme Commanders on June 5, 1945 in Berlin: Bernard Montgomery, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Georgy Zhukov and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.

Official White House portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Interstate Highway System is officially known as the ' Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways ' in his honor.

The British A4 class steam locomotive No. 4496 ( renumbered 60008 ) Golden Shuttle was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946.

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, the second Nimitz-class supercarrier, was named in his honor.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.

In 1999, the United States Congress created the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, to create an enduring national memorial in Washington, D. C ..

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

And those still with us, Herbert C. Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

As President, Dwight D. Eisenhower often assumed a role aloof from the strife of partisan politics.

This two-part bridge is best described by Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, in his `` Travels In New-England And New-York '', published in New Haven in 1821.

Six editions of James Dwight Dana's System appeared between 1837 and 1892.

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

Seeking this two-year term are James Culbertson, Dwight M. Steeves, James C. Piersee, W.M. Sexton and Theodore W. Heitschmidt.

Attorney Dwight L. Schwab, in behalf of defendant Philip Weinstein, argued there is no evidence linking Weinstein to the conspiracy, but Judge Powell declared this is a matter for the jury to decide.

Mrs. Blanche Dunkel, 60, who has spent 25 years in the Dwight reformatory for women for the murder in 1935 of her son-in-law, Ervin Lang, then 28, appealed for a parole at a hearing yesterday before two Illinois pardon and parole board members, John M. Bookwalter and Joseph Carpentier.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Theodore Dwight Weld ( 1803-1895 ) was especially active.

Two musical arrangers named Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey heralded another religious revival in the cities of the U. S. and Europe, giving the song international exposure.

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* Dwight Eisenhower held his first cabinet meeting there.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.

By 1952 Dwight Eisenhower looked to the Founding Fathers of 1776 to say:

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was elected in 1952, was the first to publicly address and congratulate the new union, which was now the largest in the world.

* 1952 – Korean War: U. S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

Eastwood registered as a Republican to vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and endorsed Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.

In 1952, Thurmond endorsed Republican Dwight Eisenhower for the Presidency, rather than the Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson.

In addition, he played a large part in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President in 1952.

Dewey did not run for President in 1952, but he did play a major role in securing the Republican nomination for General Dwight Eisenhower.

He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956 ; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It made the Democratic Party the majority party during that period, losing only to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956.

In 1952, with the support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facilities for the 50th anniversary of the Park Service.

In 1951 he organized the New Jersey effort to secure the 1952 Republican nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The main document, dated November 18, 1952, was supposedly prepared by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, to brief incoming president Dwight Eisenhower on the committee's progress.

In 1952, while still working for Northcutt Ely, Stevens volunteered for the presidential campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing position papers for the campaign on western water law and lands.

In 1952 she appeared in radio, print, and magazine ads in support of Dwight D. Eisenhower and was in attendance at his inauguration along with Anita Louise, Louella Parsons, Jane Russell, Dick Powell, June Allyson, and Lou Costello, among others.

In May 1952, Prime Minister Oscar Torp informed United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower that he intended to try to convince parliament to change the Norwegian base policies to allow permanent stationing of foreign troops.

The American position shifted in late 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower had been elected U. S. President.

* November 4, 1952: United States presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and the National Security Agency is founded.

:* Dwight Griswold ( R ), from November 5, 1952

* 1952-United States presidential election, 1952 ( Dwight D. Eisenhower elected )

Stassen played a key role in the 1952 Republican contest when he released his delegates to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In the 1952 election, Smith was widely mentioned as a vice-presidential candidate under General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Though Jackson opposed the excesses of Joe McCarthy ( who had traveled to Washington State to campaign against him in 1952 ), he also criticized Dwight Eisenhower for not spending enough on national defense, and called for more inter-continental ballistic missiles in the national arsenal.