Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Born In Denison, Texas, on October 14, 1890• Republican• Graduated from West Point• Was supreme commander of the Allied Troops

in Europe commanded D Day invasion• Nickname “Ike”

Ike Post WW II

• Became President of Columbia Univ.

• 1950 Truman Created The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and appointed him to head NATO

• 1952 was persuaded to run for President

“I Like Ike”

• Ran with running mate Richard Nixon

• Nixon got in trouble had to give “Checkers speech”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LcAJOsFGg

• Beat Adelie Stevenson twice

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCDaXeDRI4

Civil Rights

• Worked Behind the scenes to discredit McCarthyism

• Did not support initially support Brown v the Board of Education

• Did send troops to Arkansas to support desegregation of Schools

• Signed legislation that provided protection to African-American Voters

Foreign Policy

• Signed an Armistice ending the Korean War• Supported the CIA in covert opps. against

communist• Supported Anti-Communist Government in

Vietnam• Held a summit with Nakita Khrushchev in 1959

to talk peace• Lost favor of the USSR in 1960 when US spy

plane was shot down

Domestic Policy

• Achieved numerous legislative victories despite a Democratic majority in Congress

• Continued New Deal and Fair Deal, • Strengthened Social Security• Increased the minimum wage• Created the Dept. of Health Education and

Welfare• Created the Interstate highway system

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMtmXllf9w