One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

Senator Mundt's gross distortion of President Eisenhower's conversation into a denunciation of President Kennedy as too left wing, a statement Mr. Eisenhower declared to be entirely false, is another case in point.

Four hundred million dollars of the increase is for the expanded space program, a responsibility similarly neglected by Mr. Eisenhower.

Of current interest is Abilene, Kansas, the birthplace of ex-President Eisenhower.

-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.

Hughes said Monday, `` It is the apparent intention of the Republican Party to campaign on the carcass of what they call Eisenhower Republicanism, but the heart stopped beating and the lifeblood congealed after Eisenhower retired.

Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.

`` He is wrong to inject Eisenhower into this campaign '', he said, `` because the primary is being waged on state issues and I will not be forced into re-arguing an old national campaign ''.

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

Their Eisenhower is insubstantial.

* Since 2006, he is the chairman of the Board of Trustees for Eisenhower Fellowships

Eisenhower is now often ranked as one of the top ten U. S. Presidents.

In May 1955 McCarthy threatened to issue subpoenas to White House personnel ; Eisenhower was furious, and issued an order as follows: " It is essential to efficient and effective administration that employees of the Executive Branch be in a position to be completely candid in advising with each other on official matters ... it is not in the public interest that any of their conversations or communications, or any documents or reproductions, concerning such advice be disclosed.

Eisenhower is buried alongside his son Doud, who died at age 3 in 1921.

In recent surveys of historians, Eisenhower often is ranked in the top 10 among all U. S. Presidents.

Eisenhower is remembered for his role in World War II, the creation of the Interstate Highway System and ending the Korean War.

The Interstate Highway System is officially known as the ' Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways ' in his honor.

The statue is located in front of the current US Embassy, London and across from the former command center for the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War II, offices Eisenhower occupied during the war.

Eisenhower State Park on Lake Texoma near his birthplace of Denison is named in his honor.

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

The Eisenhower Golf Club at the United States Air Force Academy, a 36-hole facility featuring the Blue and Silver courses, which is ranked No. 1 among DoD courses, is named in his honor.

As President, Dwight D. Eisenhower often assumed a role aloof from the strife of partisan politics.

Eisenhower worked tirelessly to address the demands of the rival commanders to optimize Allied forces, often by giving them tactical, though sometimes ineffective, latitude ; many historians conclude this delayed the Allied victory in Europe.

" Speaker Martin concluded that Eisenhower worked too much through subordinates in dealing with Congress, with results, " often the reverse of what he has desired " because Members of Congress ," resent having some young fellow who was picked up by the White House without ever having been elected to office himself coming around and telling them ' The Chief wants this '.

Privately however, Patton was often quick to remind Eisenhower that his permanent rank in the Regular Army – both men were still colonels there throughout 1943 – predated Eisenhower's.

In the 1952 Presidential Election, General Eisenhower often had secretaries forge his name to campaign letters and " personally inscribed " autographed photographs.

During his time as UN Ambassador, Lodge supported the Cold War policies of the Eisenhower Administration, and often engaged in debates with the UN representatives of the Soviet Union.

The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961, though the term is applicable to any country with a similarly developed infrastructure.

The term military – industrial complex is often used in reference of the United States, where it came into the public's general lexicon, following its introduction by President Dwight Eisenhower in his " Farewell Address ".

The President has a large executive staff who are most often crowded in the West Wing, basement of the White House, or in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is beside the White House and used by the Departments of Defense and State.

Foreign generals are also often given honorary appointments to the Order, for example: Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Marshal Joseph Joffre during World War I ; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur during World War II ; and General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell after the Gulf War.

Bill Jackson was the Chairman of President Eisenhower ’ s Committee on International Information Activities, often known inside the Beltway as the ' Jackson Committee ', during 1953 and 1954.

It was often saved as a memento of Eisenhower and never saw much circulation outside of casinos.

Eisenhower was often referred to as " Doctor.

In return, civilian, non-TRICARE dependent patients are often sent to Eisenhower for use of its hyperbaric chamber.

Eisenhower would often poke the rump of a bull with his shotgun to show what quality of steak the bull would eventually produce, much to the fear of the Secret Service agents that were protecting him.

In an ironic twist, there was a Thomas E. Stephens ( politician ), appointment secretary to Eisenhower and campaign director, thus often confused with Thomas Edgar Stephens.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

The former secretary of labor said he was proud to be an Eisenhower Republican `` and proud to have absorbed his philosophy '' while working in his adminstration.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

In 1948, Eisenhower said he was " one of the most deeply religious men I know " though unattached to any " sect or organization ".

In athletics, Eisenhower later said that " not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

The British wanted Berlin but Eisenhower decided it would be a military mistake for him to attack Berlin, and said orders to that effect would have to be explicit.

" U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had said " something CIA chief Allen Dulles to the effect that Lumumba should be eliminated ".

He acknowledged he did not now support Bacque's conclusions, but said at the American Military Institute's Annual Meeting in March, 1990: " Bacque has done some research and uncovered an important story that I, and other American historians, missed altogether in work on Eisenhower and the conclusion of the war.

" Eisenhower biographer Jean Edward Smith countered this perception by stating, " The problem is that Eisenhower never said that.

From the beginning, Dwight Eisenhower said, “ audiences would be more receptive to the American message if they were kept from identifying it as propaganda.

After the war, Eisenhower said that Spaatz, along with General Omar Bradley, was one of the two American general officers who had contributed the most to the victory in Europe.

General Eisenhower said that " the bridge is worth its weight in gold ".

Following his death, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: " The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States.

We must convince the Latin Americans that our way of life is superior to that of the Communists .” The New York Times further explained that “ Castillo Armas had the moral support of the United States ; the Árbenz régime had the support of the Soviet Union .” The New Republic magazine said that “ it was just our luck that Castillo Armas did come by some second-hand lethal weapons, from Heaven knows where .” Newsweek magazine said that “ the United States, aside from whatever gumshoe work the Central Intelligence Agency may or may not have been busy with, had kept hands strictly off ”; that the Eisenhower Administration could have hastened the overthrowing of President Árbenz, “ overnight, if necessary: by halting coffee purchases, shutting off oil and gasoline from Guatemala, or, as a last resort, by promoting a border incident, and sending Marines to help the Hondurans ; and that, instead, the US followed the letter of the law ”, because President Árbenz was overthrown “ in the best possible way: by the Guatemalans .”

In retrospect, Richard M. Bissell, Jr., assistant to the CIA Director, denied that the 1954 Guatemalan coup d ’ état resulted from the conflation of private, multinational, business interests and US Government foreign policy ; he said that there “ is absolutely no reason to believe ” that the Eisenhower Administration ’ s ( 1953 – 61 ) desire to help the United Fruit Company had “ any significant role ” in deciding to depose the elected Guatemalan government of President Jacobo Árbenz.

Nonetheless, in contradiction, Howard Hunt, a case officer in the Guatemalan coup d ’ état, said that the political influence of the United Fruit Company upon the Eisenhower Administration was instrumental to the CIA ’ s overthrowing the progressive Árbenz Government, in order to protect the national security of the US, and the international security of the Western Hemisphere against the hegemony of the USSR.

Two Democrats were talking and one said " Wouldn't it be terrible if Eisenhower died and Nixon became President?

Eisenhower said he would not " leave his successor with the monstrosity " of the uncoordinated and non-integrated forces that then existed.

Truman also allegedly said he had the correspondence between Marshall and Eisenhower retrieved from the Army archives and destroyed.