Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

However, in formulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Soviets Truman was guided by the U. S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pentagon.

Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".

His birthplace is currently operated by the State of Texas as the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site.

Some members of the President's staff are located in the adjacent Old Executive Office Building, formerly the State War and Navy building, and sometimes known as the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

It is named after John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

** President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress.

Many of Stone ’ s prominent medical commissions were in the State of California and include the Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, the Scripps Institute in La Jolla and the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.

Gunter Bischof and Stephen Ambrose, eds., Eisenhower and the German POWs ( Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992 ).

In his 1954 State of the Union address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.

Eisenhower was certainly not a passive President, dominated by his Secretary of State on foreign policy and national security issues.

John Foster Dulles ( February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959 ) served as U. S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959.

He was also the older brother of Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence under President Eisenhower, and of Eleanor Lansing Dulles who is most notable for her efforts in the economic rebuilding of post-war Europe during 20 years of employment with the State Department.

When Dwight Eisenhower became President in January, 1953, he appointed Dulles as his Secretary of State.

Millis ’ cemetery, called Prospect Hill Cemetery, is home to the grave of Christian Herter, the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

* Christian Herter, U. S. Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

When Penn State changed its name from College to University in 1953, its president, Milton S. Eisenhower, sought to persuade the town to change its name as well.

The Nittany Valley Symphony has been part of the State College community since 1967 and offers regular concert performances on campus at Eisenhower Auditorium.

His birthplace was purchased by the city in 1946 ( six years before he became President ) and is now maintained as Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site.

In addition, Eisenhower State Park on Lake Texoma is also named in his honor.

) During the mid-1950s, the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration's prevailing nuclear strategy had been one of " massive retaliation ", enunciated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.

John Foster Dulles, then a lawyer from New York who would later become Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower, also wrote an article in the initial issue of Foreign Affairs regarding the difficulties surrounding war reparations placed on Germany after the First World War.

On 29 November 1960, President Eisenhower met with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State and Treasury departments to discuss the new concept.

Since 1980, the National Park Service has allowed visitors to the Eisenhower Farm adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield.

After preliminary proposals failed, including one to establish an international airport at what is now Burke Lake Park, the current site was selected by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958.

Image: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Statue, Eisenhower Park, Newport, RI. JPG | Oliver Perry Monument in Eisenhower Park

The Eisenhower Expressway ( Interstate-290 )-- formerly the Congress Expressway — is the primary highway between Chicago and Oak Park.

Many but not all are housed in Levitt style homes adjacent to Eisenhower Park, formerly Salisbury Park.

The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway bisected the Salisbury Plains running east to west across Salisbury, later Eisenhower Park.

In 1952, with the support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he began Mission 66, a ten-year effort to upgrade and expand park facilities for the 50th anniversary of the Park Service.

On Thursday, July 16, 1981, just after noon, Chapin was driving in the left lane on the Long Island Expressway at about 65 mph on the way to perform at a free concert scheduled for later that evening at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York.

The Lakeside Theatre at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York, was renamed " Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre " during a memorial concert held one month after his death, as a tribute to his efforts to combat world hunger.

During World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the D-Day landings from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) at Camp Griffiss in the Park.

Eisenhower transferred from command of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations to command SHAEF, which was formed in Camp Griffiss, Bushy Park, Teddington, London, from December 1943 ; an adjacent street named Shaef Way remains to this day.

" Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, at war's end, described intelligence from Bletchley Park as having been " of priceless value to me.

In October Smith traveled to Washington for two weeks to represent Eisenhower in a series of meetings, including one with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York, on 10 October.

Among these are Eisenhower State Park, named for President Dwight Eisenhower, who was born in nearby Denison, TX and Camp All Saints owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas.

* The Milton S. Eisenhower Auditorium, a 2, 595 seat center for the performing arts on the University Park campus of Penn State, opened in 1974.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, when Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, based in Bushy Park, lived at " Telegraph Cottage " in Coombe, which was adjacent to the golf course which he used at weekends.

* Eisenhower State Park

The Chicago Transit Authority maintains a rail line from the loop west to Forest Park that enters the median of the Eisenhower near Halsted Street and stays within the median through the Cicero station.