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

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

His mother originally named him David Dwight but reversed the two names after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family.

John and Barbara had four children: Dwight David II " David ", Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine and Mary Jean.

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

" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

Similarly, the ace of the 1986 team, Dwight Gooden, threw his no-hitter for the Yankees ( in 1996 ), and David Cone, who starred for the Mets from 1987 – 1992, threw a perfect game later in his career, also as a Yankee.

** David Eisenhower, grandson of former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of US President-elect Richard Nixon.

To inform an audience or readership of a person's nickname without actually calling them by their nickname, English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names ( e. g., Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, Daniel Lamont " Bubba " Franks, etc.

The term Eisenhower Doctrine refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a " Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East ".

David Jacob Eisenhower, the father of US President Dwight David Eisenhower, lived in a ranch near Hope from 1878 to his enrollment at Lane University.

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

Dwight David Yoakam ( born October 23, 1956 ) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music.

* “ In the Goodness of Time ”: Creating the Dwight David Eisenhower Room at Blair House by Candace S. Shireman was featured in White House History # 21: President Eisenhower's White House

With the Yankees, he showed flashes of his former brilliance, belting 11 home runs in a part-time role and helping his team win the World Series in 1996 alongside former Mets teammates Dwight Gooden and David Cone.

Refusing treatments he believed might incapacitate him, Zevon instead began recording his final album, The Wind, which includes guest appearances by close friends including Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, David Lindley, Billy Bob Thornton, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty, Dwight Yoakam, and others.

* Dwight David Eisenhower, Farewell Address On the military-industrial complex and the government-universities collusion-17 January 1961

A new edition, with the Journal and Brainerd's letters embodied, was published by Sereno E. Dwight at New Haven in 1822 ; and in 1884 was published what is substantially another edition, The Memoirs of David Brainerd, edited by James M Sherwood.

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

By World War II, only Dwight was still called " Ike ".

* Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1890 – 1969 ), a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, popularly known as " Ike "

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

** Ike ( TV miniseries ), 1979 television miniseries about Dwight D. Eisenhower

He also portrayed United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television miniseries Ike ( 1979 ).

Most were of a historical nature, including two noted miniseries: Ike, in which she portrayed Kay Summersby, alongside Robert Duvall as General Dwight Eisenhower, and Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill where she portrayed Winston Churchill's mother, the American debutante Lady Randolph Churchill who married Lord Randolph Churchill.

Wilson succeeded Dwight D. " Ike " Eisenhower at Allied Forces Headquarters ( AFHQ ) as the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean on 8 January 1944.

Surprising many of his fans, Selleck unexpectedly played the role of General Dwight D. Eisenhower in A & E's 2004 made-for-TV movie Ike: Countdown to D-Day.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ike 1972 clad dollar ( obverse ).

From 1971 to 1978, the U. S. Mint issued dollar coins with the obverse depicting President Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower and the reverse the insignia of the Apollo 11 moon landing, both designed by Chief Engraver Frank Gasparro.

The lineup included a Liberty Tree Knife made by Larry Harley ; a Robert E. Lee Knife and an Alamo Knife honoring Jim Bowie designed by Jerry Fisk ; an Ike Knife honoring Dwight David Eisenhower designed by Jim Crowell and a Crazy Horse Knife by Brent Evans.

The Eisenhower dollar followed the Peace dollar after a lapse of 36 years in dollar coinage and is named for General of the Army and President Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, who appears on the obverse.

The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952, and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, also known as " Ike ," for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard Milhous Nixon, for vice president.

With the publication of Plain Speaking a new vein in Miller's talent was discovered and in succession he wrote two best-selling biographies, Lyndon, a Biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Ike the Soldier, a biography of General Dwight David Eisenhower.

Called the ETO ( European Theater of Operations ) jacket, American soldiers dubbed it the Ike Jacket, after General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dwight D. ( Ike ) Eisenhower had a long history with the Gettysburg area.

Eisenhower High School is named after Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, who was the 34th President of the United States and supreme military commander of Allied forces in the European Theater during World War II.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

* Dwight Eisenhower held his first cabinet meeting there.

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

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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.

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.