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Eisenhower and was
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 ".

Eisenhower and last
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
-- James P. Mitchell and Sen. Walter H. Jones R-Bergen, last night disagreed on the value of using as a campaign issue a remark by Richard J. Hughes, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, that the GOP is `` Campaigning on the carcass of Eisenhower Republicanism ''.
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 at last had enough, relieving Patton of all duties and ordering his return to the United States.
At the Republican Convention Dewey was verbally attacked by pro-Taft delegates and speakers as the real power behind Eisenhower, but he had the satisfaction of seeing Eisenhower win the nomination and end Taft's presidential hopes for the last time.
Stevenson did not use television as effectively as his Republican opponent, popular war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was unable to mobilize the New Deal coalition for one last hurrah.
To inform an audience or readership of a person's nickname without actually calling them by their nickname, English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names ( e. g., Dwight David " Ike " Eisenhower, Daniel Lamont " Bubba " Franks, etc.
The last Republican Presidential candidate to carry the county was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.
She covered every President of the United States from the last years of the Eisenhower administration until the second year of the Obama administration.
This last collection included a signed photograph and note from Eisenhower upon meeting Stonehouse again shortly after the war ended.
At the time of his death, he was the last surviving member of the Eisenhower Administration.
The last U. S. President to stay at The Greenbrier during presidency was Dwight Eisenhower.
Following his death, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: " The American people have lost the last personal link with the Union Army ... His passing brings sorrow to the hearts of all of us who cherished the memory of the brave men on both sides of the War Between the States.
Since Washington ’ s last visit to campus, Washington College has hosted five U. S. presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and George H. W. Bush.
We must convince the Latin Americans that our way of life is superior to that of the Communists .” The New York Times further explained that “ Castillo Armas had the moral support of the United States ; the Árbenz régime had the support of the Soviet Union .” The New Republic magazine said that “ it was just our luck that Castillo Armas did come by some second-hand lethal weapons, from Heaven knows where .” Newsweek magazine said that “ the United States, aside from whatever gumshoe work the Central Intelligence Agency may or may not have been busy with, had kept hands strictly off ”; that the Eisenhower Administration could have hastened the overthrowing of President Árbenz, “ overnight, if necessary: by halting coffee purchases, shutting off oil and gasoline from Guatemala, or, as a last resort, by promoting a border incident, and sending Marines to help the Hondurans ; and that, instead, the US followed the letter of the law ”, because President Árbenz was overthrown “ in the best possible way: by the Guatemalans .”
Originally appointed to the office by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Quinn was the last executive of an era of Republican rule over the Hawaiian Islands which began during the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893, and the last Republican to serve as Governor until Linda Lingle in 2002.
The Eisenhower dollar was the last dollar coin to contain a proportional amount of base metal to lower denominations ; it has the same amount of copper-nickel as two Kennedy half dollars, four Washington quarters, ten Roosevelt dimes, of twenty Jefferson nickels.
The Magellan ’ s last official trip before retirement was in 1954, when first lady Mamie Eisenhower rode it from Washington, D. C., to Groton, Connecticut, to christen the world ’ s first nuclear-powered submarine, the.
Originally scheduled to air at 10pm on Friday, March 28, 1969, the network pre-empted it at the last minute with a special report on former U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had died earlier that day.
Because the segment from Interstate 294 to Illinois 53 was built last, that portion of the highway is referred to as the Eisenhower Extension.
'" Eisenhower ’ s Psychological Warfare Board picked up the report and successfully put Ogilvy ’ s suggestions to work in Europe during the last year of the war.

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