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… James McKay was secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, until his resignation on … (1934-1948), and governor of the state (1948-1952).As Eisenhower's secretary of the interior, McKay met with mixed …
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… William Pierce Rogers was attorney general under President Eisenhower from November 7, 1957, to January 20, 1961. Rogers … presidential disability, owing to the confusion caused by Eisenhower's heart problems. After 1961, he rejoined his law …
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… Sinclair Weeks was secretary of commerce under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to October 22, 1958. Weeks … Weeks did not seek reelection to the position, however. Eisenhower offered Weeks the job of chairman of the …
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… Frederick Mueller was secretary of commerce under President Eisenhower from August 6, 1959, until January 20, 1961. … the end of the administration. Following his work with the Eisenhower administration, Mueller returned to business and …
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… Erwin Wilson was the secretary of defense under President Eisenhower from January 28, 1953 to October 8, 1957. Wilson … without conferring with the President, so much so, that Eisenhower reputedly said, "Charlie, you run defense. We both …
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… Hosler McElroy was secretary of defense under President Eisenhower from October 9, 1957, to December 1, 1959. Prior … rose to become president of the company in 1948. As Eisenhower's secretary of defense, the defining moment of …
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… James Paul Mitchell was secretary of labor under President Eisenhower from October 8, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Though … resolve a number of strikes in his time. After leaving the Eisenhower administration, he was the Republican candidate …
Public Events
… History Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering … in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. Facing the … believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one …
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… and Welfare and served in that capacity under President Eisenhower from April 11, 1953, until August 1, 1955. Hobby … female American colonel. As director, Hobby worked with Eisenhower, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, and …
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… secretary of health, education and welfare under President Eisenhower from July 20, 1955, until July 31, 1958. Folsom … Committee on the Merchant Marine (1947-1948).In 1953, Eisenhower named him undersecretary of the treasury. Folsom …
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… secretary of health, education and welfare under President Eisenhower from August 1, 1958, to January 19, 1961. Flemming … returned to Ohio Wesleyan in 1957 but was enticed back by Eisenhower to be the secretary of health, education and …
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… had overreached were going away without a fight. President Eisenhower didn't fully support of the Brown decision. The … to build popular support for racial integration. While Eisenhower’s actions mattered, so too did his failure to use … as president to advance the cause of civil rights. Eisenhower's record, however, included some significant …
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… Thomas Gates was secretary of defense under President Eisenhower from December 2, 1959, to January 20, 1961. He …
Public Events
… Hitchcock , whose new biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, The Age of Eisenhower , will be published next spring. Free pint glasses …
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… the birth of Israel, and his relationship with President Eisenhower, whom he hoped would run on the Democratic ticket. …
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… advisors and international emissaries. He reports on Eisenhower taking Kennedy to the woodshed on the Bay of Pigs …
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… purposes namely Cleveland, Wilson, Harding, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Reagan. During the questioning …
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… why the Republican candidates should get to know Dwight Eisenhower. … Not Reagan. Not Bush 41 or Bush 43. It was Ike. Dwight D. Eisenhower was a political phenomenon. He won two landslide … of Ike is a myth that has blinded Republicans to Eisenhower’s achievements and his political skill. Here are …
History professor Will Hitchcock explains why the Republican candidates should get to know Dwight Eisenhower.
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… Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of … Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of … in 2000 and 2009. The big story in the 2017 C-SPAN poll is Eisenhower. In two previous polls, Ike came in eighth and … and his moral authority. These look like sound judgments. Eisenhower’s approach to international affairs, for example, …
Dwight D. Eisenhower is looking better and better. A recent poll of historians ranks him as the fifth-best president in our nation’s history.
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… the Book, the Miller Center's Will Hitchcock ( The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s ) joins John …