But before it was announced, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson died suddenly in September 1953 and Eisenhower picked Warren to replace him as Chief Justice of the United States.

Instead they showed some staged theatrics that suggested the computer was not responsive, and announced it was predicting 8-7 odds for an Eisenhower win ( the actual prediction was 100-1 ).

When the predictions proved true and Eisenhower won a landslide within 1 % of the initial prediction, Charles Collingwood, the on-air announcer, embarrassingly announced that they had covered up the earlier prediction.

In December 1943 it was announced that Eisenhower would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

This was the first application of the Eisenhower Doctrine under which the U. S. announced that it would intervene to protect regimes it considered threatened by international communism.

On December 19, 1950 the North Atlantic Council announced the appointment of General Eisenhower as the first SACEUR.

Mamie remained in the hospital and on October 31, announced to her granddaughter Mary Jean Eisenhower that she would die the next day.

Eisenhower told a reporter, " Any American who would have that many other Americans pay him that compliment would be proud or he would not be an American ", and announced his candidacy the next day.

The Eisenhower Doctrine was announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a message to the United States Congress on January 5, 1957.

The armistice was publicly announced on 8 September by two broadcasts, first by Eisenhower and then by a proclamation by Marshal Badoglio.

When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced the incident four days later and accused the United States of spying, the Eisenhower administration initially suggested that the plane might have strayed into Soviet airspace.

Handing back the decrypt, Eisenhower announced to his staff, " We go tomorrow .".

On 11 January 1953, Eisenhower, now president-elect, announced that Smith would become Under Secretary of State.

At Eisenhower's request, Strauss had the AEC develop the " Atoms for Peace " program which Eisenhower announced in December 1953.

In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the testing of a 95 % ' clean ' ( 2-stage ) fusion weapon, later identified to have been the 11 July Navajo test at Bikini Atoll during Operation Redwing.

At the end of October 1945, General Eisenhower, then Theater Commander, announced to the proper authorities that the population of the United States Zone of Germany would ultimately be controlled by a super-police force or constabulary.

On May 13, 1953, President Eisenhower announced his selection of Admiral Carney as the next Chief of Naval Operations.

On 8 September 1943, the American general Dwight Eisenhower announced the unconditional surrender of Italy to the allied forces.

On 15 March 1960 President Eisenhower officially announced the transfer of the Army's Development Operations Division to NASA.

* January 5, 1957: President Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a special message to Congress

* August 21, 1957: President Eisenhower announced a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing

Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination, having won critical delegate votes from Texas.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

Dewey did not run for President in 1952, but he did play a major role in securing the Republican nomination for General Dwight Eisenhower.

At the Republican Convention Dewey was verbally attacked by pro-Taft delegates and speakers as the real power behind Eisenhower, but he had the satisfaction of seeing Eisenhower win the nomination and end Taft's presidential hopes for the last time.

In 1956, when Eisenhower mulled not running for a second term, he suggested Dewey as his choice as successor, but party leaders made it plain that they would not entrust the nomination to Dewey yet again, and ultimately Eisenhower decided to run for re-election.

He served as the 31st Governor of Illinois, and received the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1952 and 1956 ; both times he was defeated by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower.

With Eisenhower headed for another landslide, few Democrats wanted the 1956 nomination.

Dirksen garnered attention at the convention when he gave a speech attacking New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a liberal Republican and the leading supporter of Taft's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower.

Still, Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination ; Dirksen then supported Eisenhower's candidacy.

In late 1951, Lodge helped persuade General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for the Republican presidential nomination.

When Eisenhower finally consented, Lodge served as his campaign manager and played a key role in helping Eisenhower to win the nomination over Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the candidate of the party's conservative faction.

In 1951 he organized the New Jersey effort to secure the 1952 Republican nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

" Eisenhower later included Bush's name on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 GOP presidential nomination.

Eisenhower sent Stevens's nomination to the U. S. Senate, which confirmed him on March 30, 1954.

When he left the Eisenhower Administration in 1958, he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.

MacArthur, however, favored U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Sr., of Ohio, who lost the nomination to Willkie in 1940, to Dewey in 1948, and to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.

" With the help of Dewey, General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Taft for the 1952 presidential nomination and became the leader of the moderates.

* Directive to Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force Dwight D. Eisenhower at his nomination

Eisenhower wished to nominate Brownell to the Supreme Court when vacancies occurred in 1957 and 1958 but felt he could not because segregationists in the Senate would fight and defeat the nomination.