Eisenhower suffered from a respiratory infection in December 1945 which prevented him from receiving the Order of the Elephant in person from King Christian X of Denmark.

Eisenhower had suffered the Soviet protests and shoot-downs of Project Genetrix ( Moby Dick ) balloons and was concerned about the probability of a U-2 being shot down.

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.

While President Eisenhower suffered heart problems, the economy enjoyed robust health.

At Bradley's suggestion, II Corps, which had just suffered the devastating loss at the Kasserine Pass, was overhauled from top to bottom, and Eisenhower installed George S. Patton as corps commander.

The first occurred in September 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation.

On November 25, 1957, Eisenhower suffered a mild stroke, which caused him to be hospitalized for three days.

Meanwhile, General Mark Clark's Fifth Army in Salerno suffered severe setbacks ; and General Eisenhower and other Allied leaders began concentrating their attention on the imminent invasion of France, temporarily neglecting Italy.

President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack.

* September 24, 1955: President Eisenhower suffered a coronary thrombosis.

Future President Dwight Eisenhower injured his knee while trying to tackle the young Thorpe.

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.

-- 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 ''.

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

Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.

Eisenhower had at last had enough, relieving Patton of all duties and ordering his return to the United States.

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.

Stevenson did not use television as effectively as his Republican opponent, popular war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was unable to mobilize the New Deal coalition for one last hurrah.

To inform an audience or readership of a person's nickname without actually calling them by their nickname, English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names ( e. g., Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, Daniel Lamont " Bubba " Franks, etc.

The last Republican Presidential candidate to carry the county was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.

She covered every President of the United States from the last years of the Eisenhower administration until the second year of the Obama administration.

This last collection included a signed photograph and note from Eisenhower upon meeting Stonehouse again shortly after the war ended.

At the time of his death, he was the last surviving member of the Eisenhower Administration.

The last U. S. President to stay at The Greenbrier during presidency was Dwight Eisenhower.

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.

Since Washington ’ s last visit to campus, Washington College has hosted five U. S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and George H. W. Bush.

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 .”

Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Quinn was the last executive of an era of Republican rule over the Hawaiian Islands which began during the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893, and the last Republican to serve as Governor until Linda Lingle in 2002.

The Eisenhower dollar was the last dollar coin to contain a proportional amount of base metal to lower denominations ; it has the same amount of copper-nickel as two Kennedy half dollars, four Washington quarters, ten Roosevelt dimes, of twenty Jefferson nickels.

The Magellan ’ s last official trip before retirement was in 1954, when first lady Mamie Eisenhower rode it from Washington, D. C., to Groton, Connecticut, to christen the world ’ s first nuclear-powered submarine, the.

Originally scheduled to air at 10pm on Friday, March 28, 1969, the network pre-empted it at the last minute with a special report on former U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had died earlier that day.

Because the segment from Interstate 294 to Illinois 53 was built last, that portion of the highway is referred to as the Eisenhower Extension.

'" Eisenhower ’ s Psychological Warfare Board picked up the report and successfully put Ogilvy ’ s suggestions to work in Europe during the last year of the war.

The colorful history of St. Mary ’ s athletics includes a stellar 1910 baseball team, which lost only to Ty Cobb ’ s Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game, and a stint by future President Eisenhower as coach of the 1916 football team.

That same year, Halas met with the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, the Navy chief of staff, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and the Air Force chief of staff, General Carl Spaatz, and Halas offered to set up an annual charity football game, with the Bears as hosts, whose proceeds would go to the relief agencies of the armed forces.

One month before his final game, he was honored with " Cecil Travis Night " at Griffith Stadium, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower in attendance.

Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower ( pronounced, ; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969 ) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.

At West Point, Eisenhower relished the emphasis on traditions and on sports, but was less enthusiastic about the hazing, though he willingly accepted it as a plebe ; he was also a regular violator of the more detailed regulations, and finished school with a less than stellar discipline rating.

Doud Dwight " Icky " Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three ; Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death.

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions ; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.

Indeed, the convoy averaged only 5 mph from Washington, D. C. to San Francisco ; later the improvement of highways became a signature issue for Eisenhower as President.

The campaign in North Africa was designated Operation Torch ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower encountered a " preposterous situation ' with the multiple rival factions in France.

Eisenhower was severely criticized for the move ; but Darlan was assassinated later that year, and Eisenhower's command position was not affected.

Operation Torch also served as a valuable training ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills ; during the initial phase of Erwin Rommel's move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ranks by some interference with the execution of battle plans by his subordinates.

Eisenhower then designed a bombing plan in France in advance of Overlord and argued with Churchill over the latter's concern with civilian casualties ; de Gaulle interjected that the casualties were justified in shedding the yoke of the Germans, and Eisenhower prevailed.

Many prematurely considered that victory in Europe would come by summer's end ; but Eisenhower knew from his German roots that the fight would continue.

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.

Eisenhower was convinced in 1946 that the Soviet Union did not want war and that friendly relations could be maintained ; he strongly supported the new United Nations and favored its involvement in the control of atomic bombs.

He firmly declined all of the offers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president ; Thomas E. Dewey was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two terms, and Eisenhower, at age 66 in 1956, would then be too old.

NATO did not initially have strong bipartisan support in Congress at the time he assumed his command ; Eisenhower unhesitatingly advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before it would come from a war weary United States.

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.

The effort was a long struggle ; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1 ) the political circumstances in the country had created a genuine duty for him to offer himself as a candidate, and 2 ) that there was a mandate from the populace for him to be their President.

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.

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.

He personally favored Robert Anderson, a Democrat, who rejected his offer ; Eisenhower then resolved to leave the matter in the hands of the party.

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 talks located in London that year, they expressed a willingness to discuss inspections ; the tables were then turned on Eisenhower, when he responded with an unwillingness on the part of the U. S. to permit inspections.