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Eisenhower told a reporter, " Any American who would have that many other Americans pay him that compliment would be proud or he would not be an American ", and announced his candidacy the next day.
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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.
Afterward, former President Eisenhower told Kennedy that " the failure of the Bay of Pigs will embolden the Soviets to do something that they would otherwise not do.
Eisenhower told Kennedy he considered Laos to be " the cork in the bottle " in regards to the regional threat.
The day after the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, that segregated schools were unconstitutional, Eisenhower told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children.
As Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy told Eisenhower: " Lincoln's remark after they got after Grant comes to mind when I think of Patton – ' I can't spare this man, he fights '.
In the 1950s, then United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, when addressing a joint session of the Parliament of Canada, told this story of McDougall's friendship and travel with Lincoln to open the cemetery in Gettysburg as an example of the long history of friendship between Canada and The United States of America.
But Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander European Theater, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone, because he felt that Mauldin's cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations.
By the time Eisenhower won the election that November, Stevens had acquired contacts who told him, " We want you to come over to Interior.
" We were violating the law ," Stevens told a researcher in an October 1977 oral history interview for the Eisenhower Library.
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and US President Dwight Eisenhower told Nasser that the US would supply him with weapons only if they were used for defensive purposes and accompanied by US military personnel for supervision and training.
Minutes of an August 1960 National Security Council meeting confirm that Eisenhower told CIA chief Allen Dulles to " eliminate " the Congolese leader.
* The Penguin Book of Lies ( 1991 ), edited by Philip Kerr, a book of essays on falsehoods told by twentieth-century figures in high places, including Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon ( ISBN 0-670-82560-3 )
Eisenhower confirmed through Major General Omar N. Bradley and others that Fredendall ′ s subordinates had no confidence in him as their commander ; British General Harold Alexander diplomatically told U. S. commanders, " I'm sure you must have better men than that ".
President Harry S. Truman reportedly told author Merle Miller that in 1945, Eisenhower asked permission from General George Marshall to divorce his wife to marry Summersby, but permission was refused.
* Garrett Mattingly, the historian, said that in the course of his wartime intelligence job, he read the cable from Marshall to Eisenhower that Merle Miller claimed Truman told him about ; Mattingly recalled that Marshall threatened Eisenhower with relief from his position as supreme commander if he divorced Mamie to marry Summersby.
Stalin, distrustful of the agreements reached at Yalta, told Eisenhower that he had " lost interest in Berlin " and would commence the offensive in May 1945.
" Mamie Eisenhower was in tears, and the general told her that Nixon was a completely honest man.
Dwight D. Eisenhower had his star valued by an American jeweler ; he told Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who was interested in receiving such a prestigious award himself, that his stones were " fakes ".
( In fact, Eisenhower was so concerned about their presence, which itself caused the Chinese government to label the American mechanics as “ combatants ”, that he told U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that he wanted them withdrawn by the end of June 1954 no matter what the situation in Indochina was at that time.
The U. S. designed these engines to be used in a new specially designed nuclear bomber, the WS-125, which was eventually terminated by Eisenhower who cut NEPA and told Congress that there was no urgency for the program.
At one point, Dwight Eisenhower told the contractor " For God's sakes, just give her what she wants and send me the bill ".
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* Eisenhower administration – James C. Hagerty, a reporter for The New York Times.
Meanwhile, in New York, reporter Homer Eisenhower Graham or " Ike " ( Richard Gere ), writes a column about her that contains several factual errors, supplied to him by one of Maggie's jilted exes for revenge.
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General Eisenhower is recorded in the diary of English Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, as saying to her, when she expressed admiration for Fellers, " Any friend of Bonner Fellers is no friend of mine!
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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.
Eisenhower promised that allied aircraft and American trucks would deliver 1, 000 tons of supplies per day.
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