Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

As a matter of American foreign policy, President Dwight D. Eisenhower promised to protect " territories in the West Pacific under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China " ( e. g. Taiwan ) against invasion by the People's Republic of China.

During the 1952 presidential campaign, Dwight Eisenhower promised to root out Communists and other security risks from government and defense industry employment — suggesting that their presence had been tolerated too easily by the Truman administration despite the existence of rules to address “ loyalty ” concerns.

In his first State of the Union address Eisenhower promised a new system “ for keeping out the disloyal and the dangerous .” Executive Order 10450 soon followed.

* 1943 – World War II: General Dwight Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.

On the orders of allied leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and the whole affair was kept secret for many years after the war.

Eisenhower was succeeded as Commander in Chief, Allied Force by Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson who was in turn succeeded by Field Marshal Harold Alexander who continued in charge of allied forces until the end of the war.

To justify carrying documents in a briefcase, " Major Martin " was given two copies of the official pamphlet on Combined Operations by Hilary Saunders, and a letter from Mountbatten to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Force and the senior allied commander in Europe and the Mediterranean, asking him to write a brief foreword for the pamphlet's U. S. edition.

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

This building served as offices for military brass from a variety of allied forces including the Canadian 1st Army and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe under General Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II.

U. S. naval forces, including the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, were positioned off the coast of Somalia to provide support and to prevent any al-Qaeda forces escaping by sea.

Since the bulk of both troops and aircraft were American, Brereton, a U. S. Army Air Forces officer, was named by Eisenhower on 16 July and appointed by SHAEF on 2 August.

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!

The chain of command for Operation Blue Bat was as follows: the Eisenhower administration at the strategic level ; Specified Command, Middle East ( SPECCOMME, a ' double-hat ' for Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ) at the operational level ; the Sixth Fleet, with aircraft carriers Saratoga, Essex, and Wasp, cruisers Des Moines and, and two squadrons of destroyers.

As a result, the Eisenhower Administration, thinking the pilot had died in the crash, authorized the release of a cover story claiming that the plane was a " weather research aircraft " which had strayed into Soviet airspace after the pilot had radioed " difficulties with his oxygen equipment " while flying over Turkey.

The Eisenhower White House acknowledged that this might be the same plane, but still proclaimed that there " was absolutely no deliberate attempt to violate Soviet airspace and never has been ", and attempted to continue the facade by grounding all U-2 aircraft to check for " oxygen problems.

* The registry of the U. S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower ( CVN-69 ), named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States and five-star general in the United States Army

Embarrassed, the Eisenhower administration quickly ended CIA support for Permesta and withdrew its agents and remaining aircraft from the conflict.

On 19 September 1994, the 1st Brigade conducted the Army ’ s first air assault from aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Embarrassed, the Eisenhower administration quickly ended CIA support for Permesta and withdrew its agents and remaining aircraft from the conflict.

* Columbine II and Columbine III, the Lockheed Constellation presidential aircraft used by US president Dwight D. Eisenhower

In 1955, the U. S. Air Force selected the Aero Commander as the personal transport for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, ordering 15 aircraft, two of which were used by The White House.

Some 320 aircraft from throughout the Army Air Corps participated, as Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower watched.

According to information from Seymour M. Hersh, author of The Dark Side of Camelot during early preparations to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally asked then-Governor of Alabama John Malcolm Patterson ( who served as a lieutenant in Eisenhower's staff during the World War II ) to use the aircraft of Air National Guard of Alabama ( Patterson, as Governor, was commander-in-chief of the guard ) by Cuban émigrés to attack and pilots to train them in deep secret in Nicaragua.

On September 19, 1994, the 1st Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division conducted the Army ’ s first air assault from an aircraft carrier, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, as part of Operation Uphold Democracy.

By the beginning of 1954, Dien Bien Phu alone required 20 C-119s and 50 C-47s, so, on January 2, Navarre ’ s second-in-command asked for additional aircraft and crews under the so-called “ Navarre Plan .” U. S. President Eisenhower, fearing both domestic and international backlashes if he were to send in U. S. troops, sent an American mission to Indochina to determine the extent of help that the French needed.

Following a personal letter from the French prime minister, Joseph Laniel, Eisenhower authorized the loan of aircraft with French markings painted on them and flown by crews from Civil Air Transport ( CAT ), a commercial airline, which had been started in 1946 by then-retired Major General Chennault, the famous commander of the American Volunteer Group ( AVG ), better known as the “ Flying Tigers ”, in China during World War II, and then purchased by the CIA in the year war broke out in Korea.

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.

Accounts vary as to how and when the German name Eisenhauer was changed to a more American spelling of Eisenhower.

Eisenhower had strong philosophical disagreements with his patron regarding the role of the Philippine Army and the leadership qualities that an American army officer should exhibit and develop in his subordinates.

Eisenhower accepted the presidency of the university to expand his ability to promote " the American form of democracy " through education.

As Columbia's president, Eisenhower gave voice and form to his opinions about the supremacy and difficulties of American democracy.

At home, Eisenhower was more effective in making the case for NATO in Congress than the Truman administration ; by the middle of 1951, American and European support for NATO was substantial enough to give it a genuine military force.

Nevertheless, Eisenhower initially anticipated that NATO would be a truly European entity, with the American commitment ending after ten years or so.

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

The US President Dwight D. Eisenhower forced a ceasefire when he threatened to sell all American shares of British Pounds and to crash the British economy.

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.

* 1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and professor

* 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States ( d. 1969 )

* 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval " quarantine " of the Communist nation.

However, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations considered it a national security threat for Canada to alone control the deep waterway, and used various means-such as delaying and stalling the Federal Power Commission license for the power aspect-until Congress in early 1954 approved an American seaway role via the Wiley-Dondero act.

Eisenhower greatly underestimated the reaction of the American public, which was shocked by the launch of Sputnik 1 and by the televised failure of the Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 launch attempt.

* March 18 – American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.

Many of the American generals who were given top commands during the war were either picked or recommended by Marshall, including Dwight Eisenhower, Lloyd Fredendall, Leslie McNair, Mark Wayne Clark and Omar Bradley.

While he had been instrumental in advancing the career of the able Dwight D. Eisenhower, he had also recommended the swaggering Lloyd Fredendall to Eisenhower for a major command in the American invasion of North Africa during Operation Torch.

Patton's operations staff was drafting plans to take Prague, when Eisenhower, under pressure from the Soviets, ordered American forces in Czechoslovakia to stop short of the city limits.

Patton ( seated, second from left ) and Eisenhower ( seated, middle ) with other American military officials, 1945.

On February 1, 1945 Eisenhower wrote a memo ranking the military capabilities of his subordinate American generals in the ETO.

In 1957 the American Central Intelligence Agency proposed to President Dwight Eisenhower that peace in the Middle East could be achieved by flooding the Qattara Depression.

Meanwhile, the American Eisenhower administration was outraged at the tripartite aggression, the British and French abandonment of international diplomacy, and its timing during the crisis in Hungary.