yet they supported the Eisenhower administration which will cost a small state like ours approximately five million dollars ( matched incidentally by a federal grant ) to initiate.

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.

The Eisenhower administration supported the development of solid-fueled missiles such as the LGM-30 Minuteman, Polaris and Skybolt.

Dwight Eisenhower publicly condemned it and supported United Nations resolutions demanding withdrawal, Israel's return to the 1949 armistice lines and for a United Nations Emergency Force ( UNEF ) to be stationed in the Sinai.

But Warren had to head off a revolt by Senator Richard M. Nixon, who supported General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Still, Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination ; Dirksen then supported Eisenhower's candidacy.

In addition, some of Taft's supporters in Massachusetts were angered when Lodge supported Eisenhower, and they defected to Kennedy's campaign.

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.

" Eisenhower carried Wisconsin with 62 % of the vote easily defeating Adlai Stevenson ( supported by Richie Cunningham's more-researched speech ).

Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day.

The Eisenhower Administration supported an activist contracyclical approach that helped to establish Keynesianism as a possible bipartisan economic policy for the nation.

Containment was supported by Democrats and internationalist Republicans ( led by Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, Governor Thomas Dewey of New York, and general Dwight D. Eisenhower ), but was opposed by the isolationists led by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

When it next met in March 1949, Conant's push for a ban was supported by the president of Columbia University, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower.

When Browning protested, Patton backed Ridgway, but Eisenhower and his chief of staff, Major-General Walter Bedell Smith, supported Browning and forced them to back down.

Powell was willing to act independently ; in 1956, he broke party ranks and supported President Dwight D. Eisenhower for re-election, saying the civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform was too weak.

By 1952 Hyde had switched party affiliation and supported Dwight D. Eisenhower.

To the contrary the members of the old guard, also known as the Capitol Crowd, were more conservative, anti-farmers ’ union, antilabor, and pro-Republican segment of the league, these members wanted to keep the Nonpartisan league in the Republican Party ; they supported Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential race.

He also opposed the Submerged Lands Act and the Mexican Farm Labor bill, both of which were supported by the Eisenhower administration.

Despite her and her husband's and father's Republican background and relationships to Presidents Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower supported Democrat Barack Obama for President in 2008.

He supported Robert A. Taft over Dwight D. Eisenhower for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, and was an early supporter of the party's nominees Richard M. Nixon and Barry Goldwater in the campaigns of the 1960s.

Schoeppel broke his allegiance to Kansas in 1952 when he supported Senator Robert Taft for president over Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Among the items on display are a check from Dwight D. Eisenhower, written to Carlson in settlement of a friendly bet, several pens used by Lyndon B. Johnson to sign important legislation that Carlson supported, and Carlson ’ s elephant figurine collection.

He became a prime and impassioned spokesman for the development and deployment of the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter as the primary jet airlift transport for MATS, and supported the election of John F. Kennedy as president to achieve that end when the Eisenhower administration rejected it.

U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower also ordered the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) to overthrow him, which they unsuccessfully tried through multiple assassination attempts and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.

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

The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other special forces in addition to almost 700 advisers.

Bernhard in turn contacted Walter Bedell Smith, then head of the CIA, who asked Eisenhower adviser Charles Douglas Jackson to deal with the suggestion.

Following the 1947 creation of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) he rose in its ranks during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations.

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.

The main document, dated November 18, 1952, was supposedly prepared by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, to brief incoming president Dwight Eisenhower on the committee's progress.

The United Fruit Company had been lobbying the CIA to oust reformist governments in the Republic of Guatemala since the time of the Government ( 1945 – 51 ) of President Juan José Arévalo Bermejo ; but it was not until the Eisenhower Administration ( 1953 – 61 ) that the CIA received attention from the White House.

The Eisenhower Administration ordered the CIA to effect Operation PBSUCCESS, the coup d ' état to depose the Árbenz Government of Guatemala.

On 29 November 1960, President Eisenhower met with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State and Treasury departments to discuss the new concept.

As Allen Dulles later stated, CIA planners believed that once the troops were on the ground, any action required for success would be authorized to prevent failure, as Eisenhower had done in Guatemala in 1954 after the invasion looked as if it was collapsing.

The Perfect Failure: Kennedy, Eisenhower, and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs.

In 1953, President Eisenhower approved CIA Director Allen Dulles ' recommendation that General Truscott be appointed the CIA's Deputy Director for Coordination.

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

His participation in Lumumba's assassination is implied with the release of US government documents revealing that President Dwight Eisenhower ordered the CIA to murder Lumumba.

Minutes of an August 1960 National Security Council meeting confirm that Eisenhower told CIA chief Allen Dulles to " eliminate " the Congolese leader.

Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America ’ s Space Espionage.

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

President Eisenhower relied on clandestine CIA actions to undermine hostile governments and used economic and military foreign aid to strengthen governments supporting the American position in the Cold War.

In March 1960, under The Cuban Project, a CIA plan approved by President Eisenhower and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans, Richard M. Bissell, Gottlieb came up with ideas to spray Fidel Castro's television studio with LSD and to saturate Castro's shoes with thallium so that the hair of his beard would fall out.

Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America ’ s Space Espionage ( New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003 ) ISBN 0-684-85699-9

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