January 20, 1953: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell broadcasts from Pennsylvania Avenue, near the White House, during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural parade.

Another example of one of Thomas ' on-air mishaps had Thomas reading a story about President Eisenhower's visit to Hershey, Pennsylvania " where he was greeted by the folks who make chocolate bars, with and without nuts.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

Among the political figures targeted by the magazine were former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., who had briefly served as President Eisenhower's Appointments Secretary.

Among them were Herbert Brownell, who would become Eisenhower's Attorney General, James Hagerty, who would become White House Press Secretary, and John Foster Dulles, who would become Eisenhower's Secretary of State.

Jenner was a staunch isolationist Republican who consistently opposed President Eisenhower's " modern-Republicanism.

Kennedy, who preferred policy-making with ad hoc groups, dismantled Eisenhower's elaborate NSC machinery and allowed the Special Assistant for National Security Affairs and his staff to assume the primary coordination role.

The residents, however, did not have to wait very long: The state was able to buy land from Charles E. Wilson, a former president of General Motors who needed to sell off his Old Westbury estate to pull himself out of financial crisis and relocate to the nation's capital to serve in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet.

Robert B. Anderson, who served as Secretary of the Treasury, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy during Dwight Eisenhower's administration, was born in Burleson on June 4, 1910.

Ed Whitman, who was United Fruit ’ s principal lobbyist, was married to President Eisenhower's personal secretary, Ann C. Whitman.

Seaton and Stevens worked with Gen. Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had served in Alaska ; and Jack L. Stempler, a top Defense Department attorney, to create a compromise that would address Eisenhower's concerns.

A memorial by Carlos Rey dedicated to the Allied troops who fell on D-Day now marks the spot where General Eisenhower's tent stood.

For instance, in Who's on First, Oakes deliberately chooses not to stop the Soviet Union from launching Sputnik ahead of the otherwise-superior US satellite program, in order to protect the life of a Soviet contact ( and thus the seeming Soviet technological triumph was actually authorized by a US agent, who allowed it to happen ); in Marco Polo, if You Can, Oakes is the real-life U2 pilot Gary Powers, and allows himself to be captured while flying over the Soviet Union in order to create a cover story for a secret US intelligence operation ( and thus the U2 incident was actually planned from the start, Gary Powers was not shot down by the Soviet military but deliberately set up his own capture, and U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's subsequent humiliation by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev never happened ).

Morgan, who had been appointed chief of staff to the Supreme Allied Commander ( designate ) in mid-March 1943 began planning for the invasion of Europe before Eisenhower's appointment.

In 1941 Farrell became the wife of Dr. Henry Ross, a West Point graduate and Army physician who served on General Eisenhower's staff.

Disappointed, King sent another telegram to the President, stating that Eisenhower's comments were “ a profound disappointment to the millions of Americans of goodwill, north and south, who earnestly are looking to you for leadership and guidance in this period of inevitable social change .” He tried to set up a meeting with President Eisenhower, but was given a meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon, which lasted two hours.

Walter Bedell " Beetle " Smith ( 5 October 1895 – 9 August 1961 ) was a senior United States Army general who served as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters during the Tunisia Campaign and the Allied invasion of Italy.

It is generally agreed that Kay and Ike were extremely close, were seen together in many press photographs during the war ( as shown in the two books and other literature ) and ( as evidenced by letters between the two ), Summersby was not well liked by Eisenhower's wife ( who was alive when the second book was published ).

Following Dwight Eisenhower's election to the Presidency in 1952, Humphrey was recommended by close adviser Gen. Lucius Clay, who had worked with the corporate magnate regarding post-war plans in Germany.

Eisenhower's two terms were peaceful ones for the most part and saw considerable economic prosperity except for a sharp recession in 1958 – 59.

Eisenhower's first struggles however were with Allied leaders and officers on matters vital to the success of the Normandy invasion ; he argued with Roosevelt over an essential agreement with de Gaulle to use French resistance forces in covert and sabotage operations against the Germans in advance of Overlord.

The last three years of Eisenhower's second term in office were ones of relatively good health.

Conservative critics of his administration found that he did not do enough to advance the goals of the right: " Eisenhower's victories were ," according to Hans Morgenthau, " but accidents without consequence in the history of the Republican party.

Commemorative signs reading " Eisenhower Interstate System " and bearing Eisenhower's permanent 5-star rank insignia were introduced in 1993 and are currently displayed throughout the Interstate System.

Eisenhower's political views were unknown in 1948.

Privately however, Patton was often quick to remind Eisenhower that his permanent rank in the Regular Army – both men were still colonels there throughout 1943 – predated Eisenhower's.

The official nuclear policy of the United States was one of " massive retaliation ", as coined by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, which called for massive attack against the Soviet Union if they were to invade Europe, regardless of whether it was a conventional or a nuclear attack.

Stevenson's hopes for victory were dashed when, in October, President Eisenhower's doctors gave him a clean bill of health and the Suez and Hungary crises erupted simultaneously.

These moves were significant because McNamara was abandoning President Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation in favor of a flexible response strategy that relied on increased U. S. capacity to conduct limited, non-nuclear warfare.

On 25 March 1957 Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control, to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control in the country since 1948, and were approaching obsolescence.

Especially well known were its vicuna wool products, which became famous when President Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, Sherman Adams, received a vicuna sport coat as a gift from a wealthy industrialist and had to resign due to the resulting scandal.

He was a key ally for the passage of Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System, and during his tenure supported the Polaris submarine project ( which were built by Electric Boat Corporation in Groton, Connecticut ), civil rights legislation, and the establishment of the Peace Corps.

The actual authors of the speech were Eisenhower's speechwriters Ralph E. Williams and Malcolm Moos.

* During the mid-point of Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, there were three instances in which the President was disabled.

The whereabouts of Adolf Hitler were in doubt, and some ( including Eisenhower's chief of staff, General Walter Bedell Smith ) felt that the German government may in fact have moved to the Bavarian Alps to establish a redoubt.

Several members of General Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE staff during the early 1950s were reported to have arranged regular shipments of chili from Pool's to their Paris quarters.

Eisenhower's officials were not sure as to whether Castro was a communist, but hostile toward the Cubans ' efforts to decrease their economic reliance on the United States.

In December 1950 it was announced that the forces initially to come under General Eisenhower's command were to be the Seventh United States Army in Germany, the British Army of the Rhine, with 2nd & 7th Armoured Divisions, to be bolstered by 11th Armoured Division and a further infantry division, three French divisions in Germany and Austria, the Danish, Belgian, and the Independent Norwegian Brigades in Western Germany, and the American and British garrisons in Austria, Trieste, and Berlin.

Four days after Eisenhower's arrival in Paris, on 5 January 1951, the Italian defence minister, Signor Pacciardi, announced that three Italian divisions were to be formed as Italy's ' initial contribution to the Atlantic army ,' and that these divisions would also come under Eisenhower's control.

In addition, Eisenhower's execution orders and Slovik's death by firing squad are included in a scene in the 1963 film The Victors.

::" president Eisenhower's Appointment Books contain no entry for a special meeting on July 16, 1954 which might have included a briefing on MJ-12.

Nadirs have included Dwight D. Eisenhower's opposition to UK operations in Suez under Anthony Eden and Harold Wilson's refusal to enter the war in Vietnam.