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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.
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.
Nonetheless, he survived in his cabinet position for all eight years of Eisenhower's presidency.
He served as Secretary of Labor from January 21, 1953 to September 10, 1953, where he was the " plumber " of President Dwight Eisenhower's " Nine Millionaires and a Plumber " cabinet.

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Though there was a brief interruption of several weeks due to Eisenhower's short return to the US, Summersby drove the general and later became his secretary until November, 1945.

Eisenhower's and corporate
Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt ; the tragedy of the commons ; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex ; economic externalities ; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station ; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany ; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust ( see IBM and the Holocaust ); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation ; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.
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.

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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.
Major General Mark W. Clark — one of Eisenhower's senior commanders — was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine — passing itself off as an American submarine — and met with these Vichy French officers on 21 October 1942.
" At least one historian has attributed Eisenhower's support for Bradley's subsequent promotion to ( temporary ) four-star general ( March, 1945, not made permanent until January, 1949 ) to, in part, a desire to compensate him for the way in which he had been sidelined during the Battle of the Bulge.
Eisenhower was particularly impressed by Anderson's abilities, believing him to be more than capable of being president himself, and he named him as one of his leading choices to be his running mate in 1956, should Richard Nixon have accepted Eisenhower's recommendation that he leave the vice-presidency in order to serve as Secretary of Defense.
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 had previous experience in 1933 with managing and organizing projects under the New Deal, and later became one of Eisenhower's closest advisers.
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.
After public outcry because Altmeyer's job was eliminated a few days before he could retire with benefits, Eisenhower's administration offered him a one month appointment to a position, but he refused to accept being paid for a non-job.
The furthest one from the house was the tree representing Texas, and it was seen as a mark of Eisenhower's recovery that he was able to make it that far after his heart attack.

Eisenhower's and labor
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.

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The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
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.
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.
" 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.
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.
Eisenhower was severely criticized for the move ; but Darlan was assassinated later that year, and Eisenhower's command position was not affected.
However, due to Eisenhower's persistence, the pivotal supply port at Antwerp was successfully, albeit belatedly, opened in late 1944, and victory became a more distinct probability.
During that year Eisenhower's memoir, Crusade in Europe, was published.
Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the Treasury Department that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax on his $ 635, 000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate.
Eisenhower's stint as president of Columbia University was punctuated by his activity within the Council on Foreign Relations, a study group he led as president concerning the political and military implications of the Marshall Plan, and The American Assembly, Eisenhower's " vision of a great cultural center where business, professional and governmental leaders could meet from time to time to discuss and reach conclusions concerning problems of a social and political nature ".
Eisenhower's campaign was noted for the simple but effective slogan, " I Like Ike ".
One of Eisenhower's enduring achievements was championing and signing the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.
Eisenhower's goal to create improved highways was influenced by difficulties encountered during his involvement in the U. S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy.
Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency.

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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.
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.
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.
Eisenhower's reported call, at a meeting of his national security advisers, for Lumumba's elimination must have been brought on by this perception.
Eisenhower's decision to launch Market Garden was influenced by his desire to keep the retreating Germans under pressure.
In addition, Eisenhower's execution orders and Slovik's death by firing squad are included in a scene in the 1963 film The Victors.
Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequalled by anything in American history.
Eisenhower's decision in this case was strongly opposed by his own army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith.
" Lucy Goes to the Hospital " was watched by more people than any other television program up to that time, with 71. 7 % of all American television sets tuned in, topping the 67. 7 rating for Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration coverage the following morning.
A copy of " The Hansard " containing President Eisenhower's speech was autographed and commented by then-Prime Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker, and can be found in the Baldwin Room ( a secured archives area ) of the Main Library of The City of Toronto, Ontario.
The movie also hints at some kind of responsibility, real or imagined, that Nixon felt towards the John F. Kennedy assassination through references to " the Bay of Pigs ", the implication being that the mechanisms set into place for the invasion by Nixon during his term as Dwight Eisenhower's vice-president spiraled out of control to culminate in the assassination and, eventually, Watergate.
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.
* “ 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
U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's solution was to establish the Program Evaluations Office ( PEO ) in December, 1955, staffed by American civilians with prior military experience and headed up by retired Brigadier General Rothwell Brown.

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