In Cuba, the July 26 Movement seized power in January 1959, toppling President Fulgencio Batista, whose unpopular regime had been denied arms by the Eisenhower administration.

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

NATO did not initially have strong bipartisan support in Congress at the time he assumed his command ; Eisenhower unhesitatingly advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before it would come from a war weary United States.

Indeed, Eisenhower embarked upon a greater reliance on the use of nuclear weapons, while reducing conventional forces, and with them the overall defense budget.

This last collection included a signed photograph and note from Eisenhower upon meeting Stonehouse again shortly after the war ended.

This stated that upon meeting each other again, Brian Stonehouse asked Eisenhower if he knew why he had survived the war.

During his retirement, Admiral Radford continued to advise Presidents Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson whenever called upon to do so, and Radford was also selected as a member of the Draper Committee.

" But this suggestion was not acted upon by the Eisenhower Administration.

Nonetheless, in contradiction, Howard Hunt, a case officer in the Guatemalan coup d ’ état, said that the political influence of the United Fruit Company upon the Eisenhower Administration was instrumental to the CIA ’ s overthrowing the progressive Árbenz Government, in order to protect the national security of the US, and the international security of the Western Hemisphere against the hegemony of the USSR.

While resting and refitting in France after Operation Market Garden, General Eisenhower called upon the 101st Airborne on December 16 to be moved into the Belgian town of Bastogne by December 18, so that the Germans would not gain access to its important crossroads.

The reverse of the Anthony dollar is based upon the insignia of the Apollo 11 mission, which was also used on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar that preceded it.

This is more of a convention of honor than a practical matter, since five-star officers continue to be paid full salary and benefits for life, unless ( as Dwight D. Eisenhower did upon his election to the office of President of the United States ) they formally resign their commission.

In 1954, he was called upon by President Eisenhower, to help forge a plan for financing the proposed Interstate highway system.

According to Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., Eisenhower had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration upon taking office.

Eisenhower cabled Marshall on November 12, 1942 “ I bless the day you urged Fredendall upon me and cheerfully acknowledge that my earlier doubts of him were completely unfounded ”.

The Eisenhower Doctrine was focused upon providing both military and economic assistance to nations resisting communism in the Middle East, and by increasing the flow of trade from the United States into Latin America.

A convoy trip a few years later by the U. S. Army along Fisher's Lincoln Highway was a major influence upon then Lt. Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower years later in championing the Interstate Highway System during his presidency in the 1950s.

The plans for construction of the Congress Street Expressway ( now known as the Eisenhower Expressway ) in the early 1950s not only loomed as a source of further drain on CA & E traffic, but the right-of-way of the new highway necessitated the demolition of the CTA's Garfield Park elevated line, which the CA & E depended upon to reach its downtown terminus.

This incident occurred during a cabinet meeting when Eisenhower suddenly found himself unable to speak or move his right hand.

Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the 1960 U-2 incident and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadership in the nuclear arms race and the Space Race, and his failure to publicly oppose McCarthyism.

The incident set back talks between Khrushchev and Eisenhower.

When Patton came under criticism for the " Sicily slapping incident ," Eisenhower met privately with Patton and reprimanded him.

Eisenhower also feared that he might cause an international incident and be called a " Warmonger " if he were to use military missiles as launchers.

This incident is particularly infamous because the computer predicted an Eisenhower landslide when traditional pollsters all called it for Adlai Stevenson.

The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.

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.

* Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum – contains a number of artifacts and documents relating to the U-2 incident

" Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report which endorsed MacArthur's conduct.

As member of the Little Rock school board, Alford launched his write-in campaign a week before the election because the incumbent, Brooks Hays, was involved in the incident in which president Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce racial integration at Little Rock Central High School.

When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced the incident four days later and accused the United States of spying, the Eisenhower administration initially suggested that the plane might have strayed into Soviet airspace.

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 .”

In the United States, he is most widely known from an October 10, 1957, incident when U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to him after he was refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

* At a press conference, President Eisenhower of the United States accepted full responsibility for the U-2 incident, and said that spying on the Soviet Union was justified.

The colorful history of St. Mary ’ s athletics includes a stellar 1910 baseball team, which lost only to Ty Cobb ’ s Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game, and a stint by future President Eisenhower as coach of the 1916 football team.

On 13 June 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a personal visit to dedicate the base in memory of Brig Gen Richard E. Ellsworth, commander of the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, who lost his life in that mishap.

Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower let it be known that he was displeased by the switch.

Harris and his American counterparts fought hard against being placed under Eisenhower, but they eventually lost.

MacArthur, however, favored U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Sr., of Ohio, who lost the nomination to Willkie in 1940, to Dewey in 1948, and to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.

Despite the reelection of incumbent Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, the inexperienced Mikan lost by a close margin of 52 % to 48 %.

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.

Cooper lost the general election and was appointed Ambassador to India by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955. Cooper gained the confidence of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and dramatically improved relations between the U. S. and the recently independent state of India, helping rebuff Soviet hopes of expanding communism in Asia.

" Stevenson lost the 1952 presidential election in a landslide to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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.

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

It is strongly identified with Adlai Stevenson, the party's unsuccessful candidate for President in both 1952 and 1956 ( in each case Stevenson lost to Republican Dwight Eisenhower ).