The contacts gained through university and American Assembly fund-raising activities would later become important supporters in Eisenhower's bid for the Republican party nomination and the presidency.

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.

The Republican Party nominated Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice-President, while the Democrats nominated John F. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.

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

He endorses Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1956 presidential campaign.

In 1952, at the Republican convention, he played a key role in Dwight D. Eisenhower's nomination by delivering the Minnesota delegation.

After 1952, Martin joined the moderate wing of the Republican Party and supported Dwight D. Eisenhower's internationalist outlook ( through support of foreign aid ), endorsed federal aid for school construction, and backed Lyndon B. Johnson's Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

During World War II he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican ; he became an Independent after Dwight D. Eisenhower's election to the presidency in 1952.

In protest of Dwight Eisenhower's selection of Richard Nixon as his running mate, Morse left the Republican Party in 1952.

In 1956, Eisenhower also carried Louisiana, becoming the first Republican to win the state since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, but the rest of the Deep South was still a bastion for Eisenhower's Democratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson.

As Secretary of the Treasury in the first Republican Administration in 20 years, Humphrey was, without question, one of the most influential of President Eisenhower's Cabinet members.

He faced two-term Republican incumbent Homer S. Ferguson in the general election, during which McNamara criticized President Dwight D. Eisenhower's economic, labor, and farm policies.

Seizing on the fact that the Republican National Convention had routinely given the RNC the power to fill vacancies on the ticket, Nixon evaded Eisenhower's power as the general again slammed his pencil down, this time breaking it:

Eisenhower's Republican Party lost eighteen seats in the House, giving the Democratic Party a majority that it would retain in every Congressional election until 1994.

Eisenhower's Republican Party gained 22 seats from the Democratic Party, gaining a majority of the House.

The newspaper also supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower's campaigns for the Republican nomination and general election in 1952, and again in 1956.

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

In sharp contrast to what would become during his Presidency, Johnson was strongly opposed as Senate Majority Leader to Eisenhower's 1957 Civil Rights Act, fearful that its passage would tear his party apart.

Eisenhower's telegram was delayed in transmission and lost among the flood being sent to Nixon's suite, and the Californian learned of his running mate's position from a wire service report.

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

The two axes are scaled to visually align for World War II, thus showing the difference between the cost per soldier before and after President Dwight D. Eisenhower's " New Look ( policy ) | New Look " policy of the mid 1950s.

Other factors playing into Brennan's appointment were his Catholicism, his status as a state court judge ( no state judge had been appointed to the High Court since Benjamin Cardozo in 1932 ), and Eisenhower's desire to appear bipartisan after his appointments of two Republicans: Earl Warren ( former Governor of California ) and John Marshall Harlan II.

He remained a close advisor to Vice President Nixon throughout the Eisenhower administration, especially during Eisenhower's two medical crises.

When McElroy acceded to Eisenhower's request in 1957 that he become secretary of defense, he limited his availability to about two years.

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.

The relationship between Smith and Hughes, an old friend of Eisenhower's, was tense, with Smith accusing Hughes of " empire building ", and the two clashing over trivial issues.

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 ).

Also not mentioned is General Eisenhower's decision to split the Bulge front into two, ceding temporary command of two American armies to Field Marshal Montgomery in the northern half of the Bulge ; implying a totally American operation.

The press became aware of the fund in September 1952, two months after Nixon's selection as General Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate.

The locomotive is displayed with two British passenger carriages once used as part of Eisenhower's Command Train.

It met in Washington, D. C. from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1961, during the last two years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.

He lives in London with his wife and two children in a house which was once Dwight D. Eisenhower's wartime headquarters.

* two portraits of Eisenhower's mother-Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas

But in 1952, he went beyond paper registration, actively supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's bid for the Presidency against Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson, for whom his mother was just as actively campaigning.

His defection from the Democratic Party and his subsequent leadership of Citizens for Eisenhower-he vocally defended Eisenhower's running mate, California Senator Richard Nixon, against attacks by his mother-caused considerable family friction.

He was a member of the Democratic class of 1958 which was elected in the middle of President Eisenhower's term.

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.

The AMGOT administration for France was planned by the American Chief of Staff, but de Gaulle's opposition to Eisenhower's strategy, namely moving to the east as soon as possible, passing Paris by in order to reach Berlin before Joseph Stalin's Red Army, led to the 2nd Armored Division's breakout toward Paris and the liberation of the French capital.

But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

For the tone of the editorials which greeted Mr. Eisenhower's original announcement of his running had been strangely disquieting.

Mr. Eisenhower's New York speech does not encourage respect for that or for his elder statesmanship.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

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.

In view of Eisenhower's reluctance to concede that anything was amiss in the Terror, it is doubtful that heroic intervention by Dulles could have produced anything but disaster for him and the country's foreign policy.

The rule was enforced by demand of Sen. Wayne Morse ( D., Ore. ) in connection with President Eisenhower's cabinet selections in 1953 and President Kennedy's in 1961.

" While NASA went ahead with planning for Apollo, funding for the program was far from certain given Eisenhower's ambivalent attitude to manned spaceflight.

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.

Eisenhower's Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors, who were primarily farmers, included Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer of Karlsbrunn, who migrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741.

Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover, born in Virginia of German Lutheran ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia.

And though his mother was against war, it was her collection of history books that first sparked Eisenhower's early and lasting interest in military history.

Academically, Eisenhower's best subject by far was English ; otherwise his performance was average, though he thoroughly enjoyed the typical emphasis of engineering on science and mathematics.

After golf, oil painting was Eisenhower's second hobby.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s Eisenhower's career in the post war army stalled somewhat, as military priorities diminished ; many of his friends resigned for high-paying business jobs.

Eisenhower was severely criticized for the move ; but Darlan was assassinated later that year, and Eisenhower's command position was not affected.

Operation Torch also served as a valuable training ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills ; during the initial phase of Erwin Rommel's move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ranks by some interference with the execution of battle plans by his subordinates.