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 ".

The Eisenhower family settled in York, Pennsylvania, in 1730, and in the 1880s they moved to Kansas.

Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York.

When he left the Eisenhower Administration in 1958, he became a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.

Dissatisfied with the containment strategy of John Foster Dulles and the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policy in general, he founded FPRI in 1955 with support from the University of Pennsylvania and the Smith Richardson Foundation.

Mamie Eisenhower spent her retirement and widowhood at the family farm at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

During the Second World War, while promotion and fame came to " Ike ," his wife lived in Washington, D. C. After he became president of Columbia University in 1948, the Eisenhowers purchased a farm ( now the Eisenhower National Historic Site ) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In 1961 Mrs. Eisenhower retired with the former president to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, their first permanent home.

Initially providing basic training for World War I units, post-war Dwight D. Eisenhower served at Benning from December 24, 1918, until March 15, 1919 with about 250 of his Camp Colt, Pennsylvania, tankers who transferred to Benning after the armistice.

Milton Stover Eisenhower, ( September 15, 1899 – May 2, 1985 ) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University.

A week after the Maddox inauguration, Callaway replaced former President Eisenhower as director of Freedoms Foundation, a nonpartisan group dedicated to patriotic causes located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

At the same time in the presidential election, President Eisenhower carried Pennsylvania by well over 600, 000 votes.

In 1953, President Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of then-U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, changed the school's name to The Pennsylvania State University, and the university developed rapidly under his successor Eric A. Walker.

Because of a fallout between the governors of both Delaware and Maryland and the Eisenhower Administration, both the MTA and DelDOT decided to build their sections of I-95, but unlike the earlier Pennsylvania and New Jersey Turnpikes, the Delaware Turnpike and John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway in Maryland would be built up to the Interstate Highway standards of its day.

It runs from the Harrisburg East interchange of Interstate 76 ( Pennsylvania Turnpike ) north to Interstate 83 and U. S. Route 322 at the Eisenhower Interchange, with a connection to Pennsylvania Route 283 near the south end.

The reverse was designed by Marcel Jovine and depicts the Eisenhower Home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

It is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was begun in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art ( now one block from the White House and across the street from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building ).

* December 17 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower presents James H. " Dutch " Kindleberger and the North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre design team with the Collier Trophy in recognition of their contributions to aviation.

The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's ( open until 4am ), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Still, within the constraints of a very large effort overall, Eisenhower gave Montgomery and his 21st Army Group a strong priority for supplies for Operation Market Garden.

At the Supreme Command conference, General Eisenhower led the meeting, which was attended by General Patton, General Bradley, General Jacob Devers, Major General Sir Kenneth Strong, Deputy Supreme Commander Arthur Tedder, and a large number of staff officers.

In addition, he played a large part in the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President in 1952.

If Communists succeeded in taking over the rest of Indochina, Eisenhower argued, local groups would then have the encouragement, material support and momentum to take over Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Indonesia ; all of these countries had large popular Communist movements and insurgencies within their borders at the time.

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.

President Eisenhower, a Republican, regarded Alaska as too large and sparsely populated to be economically self-sufficient as a state, and furthermore saw statehood as an obstacle to effective defense of Alaska should the Soviet Union seek to invade it.

The President has a large executive staff who are most often crowded in the West Wing, basement of the White House, or in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is beside the White House and used by the Departments of Defense and State.

This large influx of communist aid prompted an increase in military aid from the Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy administrations, which worried about a leftward drift should Sukarno rely too much on Soviet bloc aid.

In the early part of 1952, she and her husband helped sponsor a large rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in support of an Eisenhower presidential candidacy.

Between 1954 and 1961, Eisenhower dispatched large sums of economic and military aid and 695 military advisers to South Vietnam to stabilize the pro-western government under attack by insurgents.

In both foreign and domestic policy Eisenhower remained on friendly terms with the Democrats, who regained Congress in 1954 and made large gains in 1958.

The Four Power Paris Summit between president Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle collapsed, in large part because Eisenhower refused to accede to Khrushchev's demands that he apologize for the incident.

Mount Baxter is a large buttress-type mountain, located just south of O ' Kane Canyon where it forms a rounded projection of the east escarpment of the Eisenhower Range, in Victoria Land.

On 29 July 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, calling her the " woman of the year " She was then sent on a tour of six states where she met with luminaries and appeared before large crowds in cities such as Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco.

As Michigan's delegate chairman Summerfield convinced the large, uncommitted Michigan delegation to support Eisenhower, thus providing " Ike " with a major boost before the voting.

In January of that year Dwight D. Eisenhower inherited the Truman administration's large defense budget.

Eisenhower, however, believed that tactical weapons should be viewed similarly to very large conventional " blockbusters ", and did not want American forces stalled within small wars.

Dwight D. Eisenhower criticized the notion of the confluence of corporate power and de facto fascism, but nevertheless brought attention to the " conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry " in his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation, and stressed " the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage.

coincided with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower to the presidency by a large margin.

Although Eisenhower was re-elected with a large majority, his Republican Party lost a net of two seats to the majority Democratic Party.

By relying on a large nuclear arsenal for deterrence, President Eisenhower believed that conventional forces could be reduced while still maintaining military prestige and power and the capability to defend the western bloc.

It is situated on a campus which contains Eisenhower Elementary, Eisenhower Middle School, 400 meter field and track zone, football and soccer fields, tennis courts, large parking areas, and other open areas.