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… EISENHOWER PRAISES LBJ'S JOHNS HOPKINS SPEECH ON ASIAN … VIETNAM GOVT; LBJ DISCUSSES FOREIGN REACTION TO SPEECH; EISENHOWER DISCUSSES NEED FOR NEW ASIAN ORGANIZATION … Dwight D. Eisenhower … Conversation with DWIGHT EISENHOWER, MCGEORGE BUNDY and EUGENE BLACK, April 8, 1965 …
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… EISENHOWER ASKS FOR BRIEFING ON US POLICY ON UK EMBARGO OF RHODESIA; LBJ SUGGESTS ANDREW GOODPASTER BRIEF EISENHOWER ON RHODESIA AND VIETNAM, DISCUSSES HIS FUTURE … PLANS FOR GOODPASTER; EISENHOWER PRAISES GOODPASTER; EISENHOWER'S RECOVERY … Dwight D. Eisenhower …
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… LADY BIRD JOHNSON, LBJ ASK ABOUT DWIGHT, MAMIE EISENHOWER'S HEALTH; JOHN, BARBARA EISENHOWERS' ATTENDANCE AT DINNER FOR UK'S PRINCESS MARGARET; … Mamie G. D. Eisenhower … Conversation with MAMIE EISENHOWER, LADY BIRD JOHNSON, TELEPHONE OPERATOR and OFFICE …
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… probes. Journalists, intellectuals, and even many of Eisenhower’s friends and close advisers agonized over what … White House, the Treasury, and even the US Army. During Eisenhower’s first two years in office, McCarthy’s shrieking … Late in his first presidential campaign, Eisenhower excised a defense of General George C. Marshall …
The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes. Journalists, intellectuals, and even many of Eisenhower’s friends and close advisers agonized over what they saw as Ike’s timid approach to McCarthyism.
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… The Age of Eisenhower was a time of racial turmoil. During World War II, … B. Randle, Homer H. Gaines, and Willie Tellie. The Age of Eisenhower was a time of racial turmoil. During World War II, … In a July 24, 1953, diary entry, Eisenhower described a meeting with South Carolina Governor …
The Age of Eisenhower was a time of racial turmoil. During World War II, black Americans played a valiant role both in home-front factories and in battle-tested units on the front lines in the fight against Fascism. In the years after the war, black Americans demanded in return for their sacrifices that they be given equality before the law.
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… at least half the cost of France’s war there. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles … now, and that’s what we are trying to do.” Excerpt from Eisenhower's remarks at the 1953 Governor's Conference in … President Eisenhower was determined to keep the United States out of …
In the 1950s, American strategists viewed Asia as the most dangerous and unstable theater of conflict with the Communist bloc. In Korea, in Taiwan, and in Southeast Asia, Americans perceived dangerous threats to the “free world.” And nowhere did the stakes seems higher than in Indochina.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs in Eisenhower & Kennedy administrations … Bobby because it was interesting. I was in the [Dwight] Eisenhower administration. I started life as a newspaper … Well, I had the problem of getting, in the primaries, Eisenhower to support me against Curtis. It was a major …
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… Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” … Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” … Eisenhower was always “the coolest man in the room.” Eisenhower’s greatest domestic policy achievement came in his …
Nineteen months into his first term, President Dwight Eisenhower, quoting an unnamed “former college president,” advised a public audience: “I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
Presidential Biographies
… Strauss was acting secretary of commerce under President Eisenhower from November 13, 1958, to June 19, 1959. Strauss … board from 1946 to 1950. Strauss returned to government as Eisenhower's special assistant on atomic energy matters in …
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… Decades ago, President Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the … a core value of the Republican Party ever since Dwight D. Eisenhower turned back the dangerous isolationist faction of … President Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the …
Decades ago, President Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the Republican Party. Now Trump is toppling his legacy, Miller Center scholar William Hitchcock writes in Politico.
Public Events
… for creating an interstate transportation network? SUSAN EISENHOWER , granddaughter of the president who fathered the … in the 1950s, works on energy issues as President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. A contributor to the Washington Post , …
Presidential Biographies
… Martin Durkin was secretary of labor under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to October 8, 1953. In … Robert Taft, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks changed Eisenhower's mind. Durkin resigned after less than eight …
Presidential Biographies
… Anderson was the secretary of the treasury under President Eisenhower from July 29, 1957, to January 20, 1961. He … brought him back to be treasury secretary. Anderson had Eisenhower's confidence and was one of his closest advisers; …
Presidential Biographies
… Herbert Brownell Jr. was attorney general under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to October 23, 1957. … After playing an important part in securing delegates for Eisenhower's nomination in the 1952 national convention and …
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… Summerfield was postmaster general under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to January 20, 1961. … Summerfield was named chairman of the RNC the day after Eisenhower's nomination as the Republican presidential …
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… Seaton was secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from June 8, 1956, until January 20, 1961. Seaton … credentials. He served in a number of capacities in the Eisenhower administration, including assistant secretary of …
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… Foster Dulles served as secretary of state to President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, until his resignation on … Acheson in 1951 and 1952 before being invited to join the Eisenhower administration. Dulles enjoyed a particularly warm …
Presidential Biographies
… Christian Herter served as secretary of state to President Eisenhower from April 22, 1959, to January 20, 1961. Herter … In 1956, Harold Stassen tried to have him replace Nixon as Eisenhower's vice presidential candidate, but Herter …
Presidential Biographies
… Humphrey was the secretary of the treasury under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to May 28, 1957. George … for managing the finances of the United States. As Eisenhower's treasury secretary, Humphrey was a strong …
Presidential Biographies
… Taft Benson was secretary of agriculture under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Benson … was sent to coordinate Mormon relief in Europe in 1946. As Eisenhower's secretary of agriculture, Benson opposed farming …