This is the grave of Dwight Eisenhower. We don't need a full biography of Eisenhower here, so let me make a few points about him and his presidency, primarily. First, I suppose we should at least go over him as a general. As it turned...
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Washington Embassy/Oct.17,49, A22a(I) The Honorary Degree of LL.D. was conferred on the Hon'ble Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India, by the Columbia University o October 17, 1949, during the.
Activist with the Dallas Peace Center stand by a statue of General Robert E. Lee during a protest at Lee Park Tuesday, June 30, 2015, in Dallas. John Fullinwider, the.
The now nearly constant presidential rankings are a part of politics as entertainment, a 24-hour news cycle of history. We nearly engage in our own version of this, even if we decry it. And one way to do it is to obsess about the personality...
Kevin Kruse's essay on Eisenhower's first 100 days is really fascinating. Basically Ike dedicated it to Making America Love Jesus Again. Prayer coursed through the inaugural ceremonies as well. When.
Dwight Eisenhower liked his booze and you can drink your booze Ike-style. If you like egg nog, here is Eisenhower's personal recipe.
On September 14, 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Landrum-Griffin Act after actively lobbying for its passage. Officially known as the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, Landrum-Griffin used union corruption as an excuse for a broad-based attack upon organized labor on issues completely unrelated...
This is a few weeks old now, but David Greenberg's assessment of the continued attempt to canonize Dwight Eisenhower is quite good. The histories we write say as much about.
I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the.
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as a poor, barefoot kid. My God! Rather than portray him as "cornpone-in-chief" as one critic...
The other day, I watched the documentary Sputnik Mania. It was an interesting piece about the impact of Sputnik and how it moved the U.S. and USSR closer to a.