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.

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.

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.

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 ".

The second issue centered around Eisenhower's relented decision to confront the controversial methods of Joseph McCarthy on his home turf in a Wisconsin appearance.

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.

A group of news reporters filed a report on the Kuhl slapping incident with Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff.

Patton was unusually reserved in never publicly commenting on Eisenhower's rapid rise.

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

Montgomery requested Eisenhower's Chief Administrative Officer to leave the meeting but insisted on his own remaining.

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.

* Eisenhower's report on operation Torch

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.

From January 1957 the U. S. National Security Council considered, on President Eisenhower's instruction, and then agreed this.

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.

::" 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.

The Alaska Statehood Act became law with Eisenhower's signature on July 7, 1958, and Alaska formally was admitted to statehood on January 3, 1959, when Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Proclamation.

The only remaining issue was whether the plaintiffs had a copyright in the underlying work, Eisenhower's book Crusade in Europe.

Within, she stated the omission of the affair the 1948 book was due to her concern for Eisenhower's privacy.

Historian Carlo D ' Este notes that members of Eisenhower's staff denied that there was ever an affair between them, and dismisses Summersby's book as " fanciful ".< ref >

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 ).

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.