Eisenhower suffered a torn knee in that, his last, game ; he re-injured his knee on horseback and in the boxing ring, so he turned to fencing and gymnastics.

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.

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

His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding.

While Communists were undermining United Nations efforts to rescue the Congo from chaos, two other Communist offensives stirred the Eisenhower Administration into emergency conferences and serious decisions.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

Camp David received its present name from Dwight D. Eisenhower, in honor of his father and grandson, both named David.

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

The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall from 1896 to 1915, though Eisenhower never joined the International Bible Students.

Eisenhower ( 2nd from left ) and Omar Bradley ( 2nd from right ) were members of the 1912 West Point football team.

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.

Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.

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.

After a one year assignment in France, Eisenhower served as executive officer to General George V. Mosely, Assistant Secretary of War, from 1929 to February 1933.

The Allied leaders were " thunderstruck " by this from a political standpoint, though none of them had offered Eisenhower guidance with the problem in the course of planning the operation.

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.

As the 1948 election approached, Eisenhower was repeatedly urged by prominent citizens from both parties nationwide to run for president.

Eisenhower retired from active service on May 31, 1952, and resumed the university presidency, which he held until January 1953.

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.

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.

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

The armistice, concluded despite opposition from Secretary Dulles, South Korean President Syngman Rhee, and also within Eisenhower's party, has been described by biographer Ambrose as the greatest achievement of the administration ; Eisenhower had the insight to realize that unlimited war in the nuclear age was unthinkable, and limited war unwinnable.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

* December 24 – World War II: U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

* December 8 – U. S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his Atoms for Peace address to the UN General Assembly in New York City.

General Eisenhower called a meeting of all senior Allied commanders on the Western Front to a headquarters near Verdun, France, on the morning of December 19 to plan strategy and a response to the German assault.

Still unconvinced, Eisenhower ordered Patton to attack the morning of December 22, using at least three divisions.

On 9 December, Slovik wrote a letter to the Supreme Allied commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, pleading for clemency.

Eisenhower confirmed the execution order on 23 December, noting that it was necessary to discourage further desertions.

In November 1956 he was appointed ambassador to India and Nepal by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and sworn in December 1956, where he played a crucial role in the covert alliance between the two powers against China.

Colonel Eisenhower left in December 1939 and was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Marshall.

On December 2, 1954, Bush was part of the large ( 67 – 22 ) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, after McCarthy had taken on the U. S. Army and the Eisenhower administration.

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

Wilson with Churchill and Eisenhower in Italy, 25 December 1943.

On March 19, 1943, Arnold was promoted ( wartime ) to full General, and on December 21, 1944, appointed a five-star General of the Army under Public Law 282-78, placing him fourth in Army rank seniority behind Marshall, MacArthur, and Eisenhower.

Daimlercade Dwight D. Eisenhower | President Eisenhower Kabul Afghanistan 9 December 1959

Spain's gradual readmission to the international fold was given visible form with the visit of U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in December 1959.

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

Eisenhower announced the nomination on November 7, but Reed turned down the nomination on December 3.

Poland was granted MFN in December 1960 by President Eisenhower.

Eisenhower transferred from command of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations to command SHAEF, which was formed in Camp Griffiss, Bushy Park, Teddington, London, from December 1943 ; an adjacent street named Shaef Way remains to this day.

On December 12, 1959, Tijerina sent a letter signed by some eighty families asking President Eisenhower to investigate the land claims.

He persuaded Eisenhower to set up a review board and to withhold judgement on the effectiveness of divisional-sized airborne forces until a large-scale maneuver could be tried in December.

On the afternoon of 17 December, Eisenhower decided to commit his theater reserve to the Ardennes in an attempt to halt the German advance ; this consisted of the 17th, 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions under the control of XVIII Airborne Corps.