`` I think that all Americans will resent deeply the statements made about President Eisenhower by Richard J. Hughes.

Eisenhower later emphasized that too much had been made of the disagreements with McArthur, and that a positive relationship endured.

Eisenhower made greater use of press conferences than any prior president, holding almost 200 in his two terms.

In 1953 the Republican's Old Guard presented Eisenhower with a dilemma by insisting he disavow the Yalta Agreements as beyond the constitutional authority of the Executive Branch ; however, the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 made the matter a practical moot point.

In Eisenhower ’ s telephone broadcast to the United States he acknowledged the impact union members had made to better the nation and one of these impacts was " the development of the American philosophy of labour.

No president since Dwight Eisenhower has made a recess appointment to the Court, and the practice has become rare and controversial even in lower federal courts.

In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a " sense of the Senate " resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in " unusual circumstances.

" However, Eisenhower did not openly repudiate Goldwater and made one television commercial for Goldwater's campaign.

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.

Eisenhower persisted with his plans to capture these ports, but some argued that the capture of Le Havre and Antwerp made this unnecessary.

Eisenhower made it clear that Groves would never become Chief of Engineers.

Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who helped edit Other Losses, wrote I quarrel with many of your interpretations, I am not arguing with the basic truth of your discovery and acknowledged that Bacque had made a " major historical discovery ", in the sense that very little attention had hitherto been paid to the treatment of German POWs in Allied hands.

Eisenhower is often said to have remarked that his appointment was " the biggest fool mistake I ever made.

Eisenhower, with the support of Roosevelt and Churchill, made agreements with Admiral François Darlan that he would be given control if he joined the Allied side.

Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower both made Newport the sites of their " Summer White Houses " during their years in office.

Where Harry S. Truman was uncomfortable with the NSC system and only made regular use of it under the pressure of the Korean War, Eisenhower embraced the NSC concept and created a structured system of integrated policy review.

It made the Democratic Party the majority party during that period, losing only to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956.

Privately, however, the CIA and President Dwight D. Eisenhower were aware of progress being made by the Soviets on Sputnik from secret spy plane imagery.

Pressured in a famous phone call by president Eisenhower to " buy American made aircraft ", Drinkwater reportedly have responded: " Mr. President, you run your country and let me run my airline!

On 13 June 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a personal visit to dedicate the base in memory of Brig Gen Richard E. Ellsworth, commander of the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, who lost his life in that mishap.

" Bradley paused, made one more protest, then fell silent as Eisenhower concluded " Well, Brad, those are my orders.

* February 18 – The first Washington, D. C. – New York City telecast through AT & T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it " as blurred as an early Chaplin movie.

Eisenhower maintained no political party affiliation during this time, though he was clear in not aligning with the Democrats.

Stanley also argues that while the company did orchestrate " an effective media campaign against the Arbenz government, it is clear that the Eisenhower administration was intent on ousting what it considered to be a Communist beachhead that threatened U. S. national security.

However, both Roosevelt and Churchill accepted the necessity of Allied armies continuing to engage the Axis in the period after a successful campaign in Sicily and before the start of one in northwest Europe The discussion continued through the Trident Conference in Washington in May but it was not until late July, after the course of the Sicily campaign had become clear and with the fall of Mussolini, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff instructed Eisenhower to go ahead at the earliest possible date.

The Truman Order — based on the findings of an interdepartmental committee established in 1946 — was superseded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower ’ s issuance of Executive Order 10450 in April 1953, which provided that “ he appointment of each civilian officer or employee in any department or agency of the Government shall be made subject to an investigation ,” and made each agency head responsible for ensuring that “ the employment and retention in employment of any civilian officer or employee within the department or agency is clearly consistent with the interests of the national security .” While abolishing the Truman Order program, including the Loyalty Review Boards within the Civil Service Commission, the new Order also made clear that “ the interests of national security require that all persons privileged to be employed in the departments and agencies of the Government, shall be reliable, trustworthy, of good conduct and character, and of complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States .”

This statement recalls the 1959 Berlin crisis, when President Eisenhower first told reporters that Berlin could not be defended with conventional weapons and then added that a nuclear defense was out of the picture too.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

* Dwight Eisenhower held his first cabinet meeting there.

In the first year of his presidency Eisenhower deposed the leader of Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d ' etat, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China.

In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.

In World War II rivals who had combat service in the first great war ( led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery ) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.

Eisenhower also conducted the first pre-inaugural cabinet meeting in history in late 1952 ; he used this meeting to articulate his anti-communist Russia policy.

" When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower's first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the " customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating ", Eisenhower overruled him: " We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step.

Eisenhower had a Republican Congress for only his first two years in office ; in the Senate, the Republican majority was by a one vote margin.

In 1961, Eisenhower became the first U. S. president to be constitutionally prevented from running for re-election to the office, having served the maximum two terms allowed.

Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.

For eight years now, Dwight Eisenhower has neither commanded an army nor led a nation ; and yet he remained through his final days the world's most admired and respected man, truly the first citizen of the world.

Eisenhower was the first President to hire a White House Chief of Staff or " gatekeeper " – an idea which he borrowed from the United States Army.

Later historians have suggested that Eisenhower privately wanted the Soviet Union to launch a satellite first, thereby establishing an overflight precedent that would allow the United States to orbit without Soviet protests, as the latter's closed society had far more to lose from such overflights than the United States did.

Eisenhower was the first president to appear on color television.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was elected in 1952, was the first to publicly address and congratulate the new union, which was now the largest in the world.

President Bush's speech on October 18, 2003 was only the second U. S. Presidential address to the Philippine Congress ; U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered the first.

The Eisenhower administration's first response was low-key and almost dismissive.

Eisenhower was even pleased that the USSR, not the USA, would be the first to test the waters of the still-uncertain legal status of orbital satellite overflights.

Nixon was also the first Vice President to assume temporary control of the executive branch, which he did after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on September 24, 1955, ileitis in June 1956, and a stroke in November 1957.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president to travel by helicopter to and from the White House grounds.

* February 12 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U. S. advisors to South Vietnam.

* January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.