Dwight D. Eisenhower Life's Journey

Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms, the tensions of the Cold War relief. He pursued the moderate policies of "Modern Republicanism," shows how he left office, "America is today the strongest, most influential and most productive nation in the world."
Born in Texas in 1890, grew up in Abilene, Kansas, was, Eisenhower, the third of seven sons. He excelled in sports in school and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.
In his early career Army, he excelled in staff assignments, are among the Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the Allied landings in North Africa in November 1942 on D-Day, 1944 he became commander of the troops invading France.
After the war he became president of Columbia University, took leave to take command of the new NATO forces together in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to the presidency in 1952.
"I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan; Eisenhower won a great victory.
Bargaining power by military force, he tried the strains of the Cold War reduction. In 1953, the signing of a ceasefire, an armed peace along the border of South Korea. Stalin's death in the same year, causing changes in relations with Russia.
New Russian leaders consented to a peace treaty neutralizing Austria. Meanwhile, developed both Russia and the United States hydrogen bomb. With the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, the leader of the British, French and Russian governments, was held in Geneva in July 1955.
The Chairman suggested that "to provide in our countries facilities for aerial photography to another country." The United States and Russia exchange blueprints of each other's military facilities and The Russians greeted the proposal with silence, but they were so warmly in the meetings that tensions relaxed.
Suddenly, in September 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver, Colorado. After seven weeks he left the hospital in February 1956 doctors reported his recovery. In November he was elected for his second term.
In domestic policy the President pursued a middle course, a large part of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs, emphasizes a balanced budget. As desegregation of schools began in troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to meet with the appointment of a federal court, he ordered the complete desegregation of the armed forces. "It should not be second-class citizens in this country," he wrote.
Eisenhower concentrated on maintaining world peace. He watched with pleasure the development of his "Atoms for Peace" program - the loan of American uranium "not" nations for peaceful purposes.
Prior to January 1961, left for his farm in Gettysburg, he urged the need to maintain an adequate military, but warned that could large, long-term military spending to grow to potential threats to our way of life. He closed with a prayer for peace "in the goodness of time." Both themes remained timely and urgent when he died after a long illness, on 28 March 1969.

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