Both his father and brother were newspaper reporters ( his nephew, James P. Mitchell, later served as Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of Labor ).

* 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.

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 the political figures targeted by the magazine were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Eisenhower's appointee to be Appointments Secretary Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., both in 1956.

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 campaign was noted for the simple but effective slogan, " I Like Ike ".

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.

Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, " simple and earnest, rather cause us to wonder at the hidden depths of this reticent president ".

On 29 July 1955, James C. Hagerty, president Dwight D. Eisenhower's press secretary, announced that the United States intended to launch " small Earth circling satellites " between 1 July 1957 and 31 December 1958 as part of their contribution to the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ).

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.

::" 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.

Longworth developed a genuine friendship with Richard Nixon when he was vice president, and when he returned to California after Eisenhower's second term, Longworth kept in touch and did not consider his political career to be over.

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.

This was a response to Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address, in which the departing U. S. president warned against the dangers of what he called the " military-industrial complex " and the potential " domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money ".

Law Day was originally the idea of Charles S. Rhyne, Eisenhower's legal counsel for a time, who was serving in 1957-1958 as the president of the American Bar Association.

" Exhibiting the same independent nature in the Senate as she had in the House, Smith opposed President Eisenhower's nomination of Lewis Strauss as Secretary of Commerce in 1959.

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

That evening, Eisenhower's body was placed onto a train en route to Abilene, Kansas.

* Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, ( University Press of Kansas, 2005 ) p. 37.

In October 1990 it was moved to Abeline, Kansas for the celebrations of the centenary of Eisenhower's birth.

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

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.

On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service.

Kennan returned to Washington, where he became embroiled in disagreements with Dwight D. Eisenhower's hawkish secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eisenhower's aide made a report on Fredendall to President Roosevelt, where he communicated, without elaboration, Eisenhower's view that Fredendall be reassigned to a training command.

Replaced between the wars with a neo-Georgian office building of the same name which was U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters during World War II, where Operation Torch and Operation Overlord were planned.