* Eisenhower's 1956 presidential campaign, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

Eisenhower's strong backing could have been an asset to the Goldwater campaign, but instead its absence was clearly noticed.

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

He was also a major contributor to Eisenhower's general election campaign in 1952.

Throughout these periods of World War II when air interdiction was practiced and developed, Tedder was always at the forefront as Air Commander-in-Chief of RAF Middle East Command, Mediterranean Air Command ( MAC ), Mediterranean Allied Air Forces, and as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for planning the air operations of the Normandy campaign.

Brownell was instrumental in convincing General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President of the United States, and worked in Eisenhower's 1952 campaign.

The missile gap debate lasted throughout the rest of Eisenhower's term and became a prominent issue in the presidential campaign of 1960.

In 1956, Nunn served as statewide campaign manager for Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential bid, as well as the senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton.

White also drummed up support for Dwight D. Eisenhower's run for the Presidency in 1952 and was an active supporter for the presidential campaign of friend Richard Nixon.

During his campaign against Benton, Purtell supported General Eisenhower's campaign platform on " Communism, corruption, and Korea.

He was a speech writer for Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign.

Persons was called back to active duty as a special assistant to General Dwight D. Eisenhower at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe from 1951 – 1952 and was active on behalf of Eisenhower's presidential campaign in 1952.

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.

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.

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 cabinet, consisting of several corporate executives and one labor leader, was dubbed by one journalist, " Eight millionaires and a plumber.

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.

Ridgway was concerned that Eisenhower's proposal to significantly reduce the size of the Army would leave it unable to counter the growing Soviet military threat, as noted by the 1954 Alfhem affair in Guatemala.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Washington refused to support Churchill's plan to use Eisenhower's army for political maneuvers against Moscow.

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.

In April 1958, he was appointed as a consultant to the House Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, which was preparing to hold hearings on President Eisenhower's proposal for a new agency to handle space research, and a month later received the Ohio State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

* 1962 –, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.

* Open Skies for Peace in the Age of Nuclear Weapons Video and documents about President Eisenhower's open skies proposal.

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.

Eisenhower's reported call, at a meeting of his national security advisers, for Lumumba's elimination must have been brought on by this perception.