Dwight Eisenhower is the 34th president of the United States of America, USA. He was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, and brought up in Abilene, Kansas. He was married to Mamie Geneva Doud in 1916. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called Dwight Eisenhower to Washington for a war plan assignment.
Dwight Eisenhower commanded the Allied Forces in North Africa in November 1942; and in 1944 he was Supreme Commander for the troops invading France. He served a Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe as General of the Army, and he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO in 1949.Dwight Eisenhower became President of Columbia University after the war, and then left to assume supreme command over the NATO forces in 1951. He was persuaded from Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris to run for President in 1952. He was elected in November 1956 for his second term.
Dwight Eisenhower was engaged in talks with Russia during the Cold War and he achieved signing a truce which brought an armed peace along the borders of South Korea in 1953, meanwhile the death of Stalin that year caused shifts in relation with USSR.
He left office in January 1961; and he died in March 28, 1969. He was from the Republican Party. He was preceded by Harry Truman and succeeded by John Kennedy. He had Richard Nixon as his Vice President. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com
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