Biography of Dwight Eisenhower

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14 October 1890
March 28, 1969
34th President of the United States of America (successor of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy's predecessor, Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison (Texas), the day 14 October 1890. Grew up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven children. During college he excelled at sports. Stationed in Texas as second lieutenant, where he met Mamie Geneva Doud, who in 1916 became his wife. Initially the army distinguished himself under the command of General John j. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George Marshall called Eisenhower to Washington for an assignment relating to war plans. Eisenhower commanded the Allied forces who landed in North Africa in November 1942; on D-Day, during the Normandy invasion of 1944, was Supreme Commander of the troops which invaded France.
After the war Eisenhower became President of Columbia University; soon after he left this job to assume the Supreme command of the new NATO force assembled in 1951. A year later, a group of Republicans sent to his quarters near Paris persuaded him to take the field to run in the presidential elections. "I like Ike" (I like Ike) was the slogan of his election campaign, which proved irresistible. Dwight Eisenhower won by a wide margin compared to his opponent, Democrat Adlai Stevenson. He became President in 1953 and held this position until 1961.
Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea (1953) and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease tensions in the cold war. During the same period as a result of Stalin's death there have been profound changes in the relations between the United States and Russia. The new Soviet leaders agreed to a peace treaty neutralizing the Austria. Meanwhile, Russia is that United States had developed their own programs on hydrogen bombs. With the threat of such destructive force hanging over the world, Eisenhower, met in Paris the heads of the British, French and Russian Governments.
The United States and Russia that was proposed to exchange the programs of their respective military establishments, giving the opponent for aerial photography services within their territories. Suddenly in Denver, Colorado, suddenly in September 1955 Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. After seven weeks left the hospital, and in February 1956 doctors reported his full recovery. In November he was elected for his second term. The internal politics of Eisenhower follow a middle course, continuing most of the New Deal and Fair Deal "(the New Deal" New Covenant "was the plan of economic and social reforms promoted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) emphasizing a balanced budget.
He introduced the abolition of racial segregation in schools; He sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to ensure compliance with the orders of a Federal Court; ordered the racial desegregation of the armed forces. Eisenhower, at the end of 1940 was staunch supporter of the arms race. rhyme he left the Office instead, in January 1961 (to retire to his farm in Gettysburg) in his farewell speech to the nation warned the world against the danger represented by the commercial interests of the arms industry, which to survive had always need specific war. When he left his Office emphasized that "America is today the strongest, most influential and most productive nation in the world".
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