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.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

In assigning to God the responsibility which he learned could not rest with his doctors, Eisenhower gave evidence of that weakening of the moral intuition which was to characterize his administration in the years to follow.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

It was the Eisenhower Administration which produced the largest peacetime deficit.

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.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

The Eisenhower budget was simultaneously inadequate in its provisions and yet extravagant in its projections of revenue to be received.

I am sure that they did when Eisenhower was President.

In the matter of money State's most unrelenting watchdog during the Eisenhower years was Representative John J. Rooney, of Brooklyn, who controlled the purse for diplomatic administrative expenses.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

The former secretary of labor said he was proud to be an Eisenhower Republican `` and proud to have absorbed his philosophy '' while working in his adminstration.

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

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.

One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Built before strict federal Interstate Highway standards were developed during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, the expressway was plagued by tight turns, an excessive number of entrances and exits, entrance ramps without merge lanes, and continually escalating vehicular loads.

McCarry served in the United States Army, where he was a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, has been a small-town newspaperman, and was a speechwriter in the Eisenhower administration.

In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

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.

The original floor was made of cork installed over soft wood ; however, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was an avid golfer and damaged the floor with his golf spikes.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, when Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, based in Bushy Park, lived at " Telegraph Cottage " in Coombe, which was adjacent to the golf course which he used at weekends.

The Eisenhower Trophy is a biennial world amateur team golf championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation.

Other International events the RCGA has been much involved in are the World Amateur Team Matches for the Eisenhower Trophy, since 1958: winning in 1986, placing second in 1962, 1964, 1978, and 2006, and hosting these “ Olympics ” of golf in 1992 ; the Commonwealth Matches, won by Canada in 1971 and 1975, discontinued in 1975 ; and the Simon Bolivar Biennial Tournament, won in 1981 by Doug Roxburgh and Gary Cowan representing Canada.

President Eisenhower frequented nearby Augusta, Georgia and played golf at the Augusta National Golf Club, home of The Masters Tournament.

He took part in renowned golf tournaments including the Bob Hope Desert Classic, where his team won in 1967 ; the Bing Crosby Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, where he played several times ; the Eisenhower Cup, where he played for Brazil in Rome in 1964, Mexico City in 1966 and Melbourne in 1968 ; and the British Amateur Golf Championship, where he led the American contingent on the first qualifying round after having a hole-in-one at Carnoustie, Scotland.

In athletics, Eisenhower later said that " not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

Eisenhower later served as junior varsity football coach and cheerleader.

After the war, Eisenhower reverted to his regular rank of captain and a few days later was promoted to major, a rank he held for 16 years.

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.

Eisenhower later emphasized that too much had been made of the disagreements with McArthur, and that a positive relationship endured.

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

His body arrived on April 2, and was interred later that day in a small chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Library.

General ( later U. S. President ) Dwight D. Eisenhower inspecting prisoners ' corpses at the liberated Ohrdruf forced labor camp, 1945

In 1942, Eisenhower was promoted to major general and, just a few months later, to lieutenant general – outranking Patton for the first time.

When Eisenhower won the Presidency later that year, many of Dewey's closest aides and advisors would become leading figures in the Eisenhower Administration.

In later years he was a qualified Air Traffic Control Officer on the carrier USS Forrestal and flew an A-6 Intruder off the carrier USS Eisenhower.

In 1957, the Air Force cadets marched in the Inaugural Parade of President Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, D. C .. On 29 August 1958, the wing of 1, 145 cadets moved to the present site near Colorado Springs, and less than a year later the Academy received accreditation.

During this assignment Macmillan served as liaison and mediator between Churchill and US General Dwight D. Eisenhower in North Africa, building a rapport with the latter that would prove helpful in his later career.

Other descendants were Ezra T. Benson and his grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, later 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway bisected the Salisbury Plains running east to west across Salisbury, later Eisenhower Park.

On Thursday, July 16, 1981, just after noon, Chapin was driving in the left lane on the Long Island Expressway at about 65 mph on the way to perform at a free concert scheduled for later that evening at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York.

" Eisenhower later included Bush's name on an undated handwritten list of prospective candidates he favored for the 1960 GOP presidential nomination.

John Foster Dulles, then a lawyer from New York who would later become Secretary of State under Dwight D. Eisenhower, also wrote an article in the initial issue of Foreign Affairs regarding the difficulties surrounding war reparations placed on Germany after the First World War.

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.

On February 21, 1957 Herter was appointed Under Secretary of State for the second term of the Eisenhower administration, and later, when John Foster Dulles became seriously ill, he was appointed Secretary of State, April 22, 1959.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to him as " the Last Hero ", which later became the title of a biography of him.

" Wilson later served as United States Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.