1. Dwight Eisenhower was already well versed in Philippine problems from his service under MacArthur in Washington.
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1. Dwight Eisenhower was already well versed in Philippine problems from his service under MacArthur in Washington.
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3. In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower campaigned for the presidency of the United States and won.
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4. Dwight Eisenhower believed in the Domino Theory and sent military advisors to Vietnam to halt the advance of communism.
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8. Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point as a Second Lieutenant and then continued his education at the Army War College.
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10. In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower decided against authorizing an air strike to rescue French troops from defeat at Dien Bien Phu, avoiding a war in Indochina, though his support for the anti-communist government in South Vietnam would sow the seeds of future US participation in the Vietnam War.
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13. World War I ended just before Dwight Eisenhower was scheduled to go to Europe, frustrating the young officer, but he soon managed to gain an appointment to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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15. Dwight Eisenhower was mostly focused on football at West Point until he literally ran into the legendary Jim Thorpe in a contest against Carlisle in 1912.
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19. Dwight Eisenhower served as president from 1953 to 1961, during which time he significantly expanded the highway system, created NASA, and put five justices on the Supreme Court.
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25. In 1911, Dwight Eisenhower landed an appointment at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where attendance was free of charge.
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26. On July 12, 1957, Dwight Eisenhower became the first president to employ the new aviation technology when he rode in a two-passenger Bell H-13J helicopter to Camp David as part of a test of White House evacuation procedures.
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33. On January 17, 1961, Dwight Eisenhower gave his final televised Address to the Nation from the Oval Office.
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37. Dwight Eisenhower was treated by Dr Paul Dudley White, a cardiologist with a national reputation, who regularly informed the press of the President's progress.
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39. Dwight Eisenhower began chain smoking cigarettes at West Point, often three or four packs a day.
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46. Dwight Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union address in February 1953, saying "I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces".
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49. Dwight Eisenhower told Kennedy he considered Laos "the cork in the bottle" with regard to the regional threat.
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50. In February 1955, Dwight Eisenhower dispatched the first American soldiers to Vietnam as military advisors to Diem's army.
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52. Dwight Eisenhower publicly disavowed his allies at the United Nations, and used financial and diplomatic pressure to make them withdraw from Egypt.
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58. In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower articulated the domino theory in his outlook towards communism in Southeast Asia and in Central America.
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60. Dwight Eisenhower was assigned as an observer for the mission, which involved sending a convoy of US Army vehicles coast to coast.
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61. Dwight Eisenhower justified the project through the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 as essential to American security during the Cold War.
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63. Dwight Eisenhower was publicly noncommittal about Nixon's repeating as the Vice President on his ticket; the question was an especially important one in light of his heart condition.
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67. Dwight Eisenhower upgraded the role of the National Security Council in planning all phases of the Cold War.
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69. Dwight Eisenhower was the last president born in the 19th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.
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70. Dwight Eisenhower advised the participating European nations that it would be incumbent upon them to demonstrate their own commitment of troops and equipment to the NATO force before such would come from the war-weary United States.
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71. Dwight Eisenhower held this position until January 20, 1953, when he became the President of the United States.
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72. Dwight Eisenhower was unknowingly building resentment and a reputation among the Columbia University faculty and staff as an absentee president who was using the university for his own interests.
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75. Dwight Eisenhower had serious disagreements with Churchill and Montgomery over questions of strategy, but these rarely upset his relationships with them.
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77. Dwight Eisenhower had to skillfully manage to retain the services of the often unruly George S Patton, by severely reprimanding him when Patton earlier had slapped a subordinate, and then when Patton gave a speech in which he made improper comments about postwar policy.
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78. Dwight Eisenhower insisted that the British give him exclusive command over all strategic air forces to facilitate Overlord, to the point of threatening to resign unless Churchill relented, as he did.
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79. Dwight Eisenhower was charged in these positions with planning and carrying out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 under the code name Operation Overlord, the liberation of Western Europe and the invasion of Germany.
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81. Dwight Eisenhower learned to fly, making a solo flight over the Philippines in 1937, and obtained his private pilot's license in 1939 at Fort Lewis.
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83. Dwight Eisenhower had strong philosophical disagreements with MacArthur regarding the role of the Philippine Army and the leadership qualities that an American army officer should exhibit and develop in his subordinates.
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84. Dwight Eisenhower was assigned to the American Battle Monuments Commission directed by General Pershing, and with the help of his brother Milton Eisenhower, then a journalist at the Agriculture Department, he produced a guide to American battlefields in Europe.
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85. Dwight Eisenhower was an honorary member of the Sigma Beta Chi fraternity at St Mary's University.
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86. Dwight Eisenhower served initially in logistics and then the infantry at various camps in Texas and Georgia until 1918.
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90. Dwight Eisenhower began painting while at Columbia University, after watching Thomas E Stephens paint Mamie's portrait.
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91. Dwight Eisenhower proposed to her on Valentine's Day in 1916.
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92. Dwight Eisenhower made the varsity football team and was a starter as running back and linebacker in 1912, when he tackled the legendary Jim Thorpe of the Carlisle Indians.
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97. Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders that integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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98. Dwight Eisenhower approved the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was left to his successor, John F Kennedy, to carry out.
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