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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dwight Eisenhower Confused with Milton
		Eisenhower accepted an offer to become Columbia's president in 1948 and officially held the position until he was sworn in as President of the United States in January 1953 (although he took leave from Columbia after being appointed Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in 1950).
		One of the many apocryphal stories surrounding the selection of Eisenhower has it that the trustees confused General Eisenhower with his older [sic] brother, Milton, who was in 1947 president of Kansas State University (and about to become president of Pennsylvania State University).
		Eisenhower said that he would not be available for nearly two years, and that he therefore could not consider the offer at that time.
	www.snopes.com /college/admin/eisenhower.asp (940 words)

	::Dwight Eisenhower::
		Eisenhower was one of the most important generals of World War Two and one who went on to greater success as president of America from 1953 to 1961.
		Eisenhower was to continue working on tanks and he met the then Colonel George Patton at Camp Meade in Maryland.
		Eisenhower was given command of the Allied forces that fought in Sicily and mainland Italy.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /dwight_eisenhower.htm (1691 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eisenhower was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Denison, Texas) Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover, and their only child born in Texas.
		Eisenhower was named Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in November 1945, and in December 1950 was named Supreme Commander of the (An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
		Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969 at Walter Reed Army Hospital in (The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles l'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791) Washington D.C., after a long illness.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dw/dwight_d._eisenhower.htm (5034 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, the third of seven sons born to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover, and their only child born in Texas.
		Eisenhower was named Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in November 1945, and in December 1950 was named Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.
		Eisenhower had been impressed during the war with the German Autobahn system, and also recalled his own involvement in a military convoy in 1919 that took 62 days to cross the U.S. Another achievement was a 20% increase in family income during his presidency, of which he was very proud.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dwight-D.-Eisenhower (10489 words)

	Eisenhower, Dwight David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eisenhower’s impressive performance in the 1941 army maneuvers led to his assignment in Washington, D.C. as chief of operations (1942) and preceded his meteoric rise to the top as Allied military commander of World War II.
		Eisenhower soon fulfilled his campaign pledge when an armistice was signed (July, 1953) in Korea after he threatened to use nuclear weapons.
		Eisenhower and his secretary of state John Foster Dulles continued the Truman administration policy of containing Communism and of financing the French attempt to maintain control of Indochina.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ei/EisenhoDD.html (948 words)

	Educators and Students - Message Drafted by General Eisenhower in Case the D-Day Invasion Failed and Photographs Taken ...
		General Eisenhower's experience and the Allied troops' preparations were finally put to the test on the morning of June 6, 1944.
		Eisenhower's doubts about success in the face of a highly-defended and well-prepared enemy led him to consider what would happen if the invasion of Normandy failed.
		Eisenhower's letter was not needed, because D-Day was a success, opening Europe to the Allies and a German surrender less than a year later.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/d-day-message (678 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		Eisenhower was delighted when in December the CCS ordered him to leave Italy and go to London to take command of the forces gathering in England for the invasion of France.
		Eisenhower believed that if he gave all the drastically limited supplies--SHAEF's major problem was the absence of deepwater ports--to Montgomery and allowed him to drive into Germany, the troops involved in the single thrust would be isolated and destroyed by the enemy.
		Eisenhower brought to the presidency both the assets and limitations of a military background: a talent for administrative efficiency qualified by a deficient background in national problems outside the sphere of foreign relations.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_eisenhower.html (5791 words)

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		They held that Eisenhower's proposals were contrary to his previous assurances that the main battle would be fought in the north; that they relegated their forces to a secondary position; and that they failed to include capture of Berlin-an impor- [10] Bradley, A Soldier's Story, pp.
		General Alexei Antonov, Red Army Chief of Staff, added that the Soviet Command contemplated occupying Berlin and clearing the Germans from the east bank of the Elbe north and south of Berlin and from the Moldau River valley.
		General Eisenhower warned all German soldiers by radio that any continuation of hostilities would be severely punished by the Allies.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/command.decisions/chap_22/chap_22.txt (5318 words)

	Biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower
		Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
		Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons.
		Suddenly, in September 1955, Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in Denver, Colorado.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/de34.html (618 words)

	Eisenhower Presidential Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eisenhower and Nixon defeat Stevenson and Kefauver by nine million votes in presidential election.
		Eisenhower Doctrine established to resist Communist aggression in the Middle East.
		Eisenhower travels on a goodwill mission to 19 nations in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia.
	www.nps.gov /eise/chrono2.htm (330 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower
		Eisenhower's career in the US Army had so far being fairly unspectacular but he had impressed General George Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff, and a week after Pearl Harbor was recruited to help prepare the plans for war with Japan and Germany.
		General George Patton now moved to the west of the island and General Omar Bradley headed north and the German Army was forced to retreat to behind the Simeto River.
		Eisenhower was aware that he would have difficulty in persuading the American public to support another war so quickly after Korea.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAeisenhower.htm (7099 words)

	D-Day June 6, 1944
		General Eisenhower's determination that operation OVERLORD (the invasion of France) would bring a quick end to the war is obvious in this message to the troops of the Allied Expeditionary Forces on June 6, 1944, the morning of the invasion.
		General Dwight D. Eisenhower aboard the HMS Apollo, a mine layer, for visit to beachhead along French coast.
		Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar Bradley chat with Staff Sergenat K.N. Hougard, Portland, Oregon, waist gunner of a bomber which was shot down over France.
	www.eisenhower.archives.gov /dl/dday/ddaypage.html (1691 words)

	Ira Chernus - General Eisenhower: Ideology and Rhetoric
		Eisenhower's discourse of peace would allow no genuine interchange between the two great nations; it denied the possibility of harmonious interaction so basic to the Wilsonian internationalist ideal.
		As a speaker and writer, Eisenhower entered into an implicit contract with his audiences, and the common coin of that contract was their common fear.
		As he spoke of duty, the prevention of chaos, the preservation of civilization, the "middle way," global stability, and the "wall of peace," he made it clear that stasis, not dynamism, was his ideal.
	spot.colorado.edu /~chernus/Research/GeneralEisenhower.html (909 words)

	USATODAY.com - Reporter's odyssey took him from Jersey sports to German surrender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		German generals were planning a surrender while Hitler was dug in at his Berlin bunker.
		The general had told him he would have to send his wife to another theater if they married (The American Theater) but it was all right with Mickey.
		Eisenhower, talking to my father still in his pajamas, said he hoped he would know if that were true, but called Churchill anyway.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-06-02-war-father_x.htm (2978 words)

	Dwight David Eisenhower
		Eisenhower, actively encouraged by his parents and brothers, saw education as a way to better himself and became as much of a scholar as he was an athlete.
		Eisenhower devoted himself to energizing his staff, building a solid relationship with the British ally, and managing Operation BOLERO, as the buildup of resources for the ultimate invasion of Europe was dubbed.
		Eisenhower discovered that handling coalition warfare involving the three armed services of two nations in a campaign launched on hostile soil by amphibious landings, where logistical and administrative support did not previously exist, was even more complex than he had imagined.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/ike/ike.htm (8185 words)

	Eisenhower's Holocaust - His Slaughter Of 1.7 Million Germans
		Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose, who was given access to the Eisenhower personal letters, states that he proposed to exterminate the entire German General Staff, thousands of people, after the war.
		Eisenhower was furious, and issued a specific order to Patton, to turn these men over to the DEF camps.
		Wherever Eisenhower went during his military career, Eisenhower's Jewish background and secondary manifesting behavior was a concern to his fellow officers.
	www.rense.com /general46/germ.htm (3126 words)

	Our Documents - General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
		Photograph, "General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the order of the Day," 6/6/44; ARC #531217; NWDNS-111-SC-194399; Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer; Record Group 111; National Archives.
		This order was issued by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to encourage Allied soldiers taking part in the D-day invasion.
		Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note intended for release, accepting responsibility for the decision to launch the invasion and full blame should the effort to create a beachhead on the Normandy coast fail.
	www.ourdocuments.gov /doc.php?flash=true&doc=75 (557 words)

	Eisenhower Center \| General Information
		Every Eisenhower Center client is assigned a case worker who is an essential link between the agency, client, residence and other community services.
		Eisenhower Center is partially funded by various local, state and federal programs.
		Eisenhower Center is governed by an elected Board of Directors.
	www.eisenhowercenter.org /geninfo.htm (457 words)

	Eisenhower Memorial Commission
		General Eisenhower’s armies were about 200 miles west of Berlin, but encountering light resistance as they rapidly advanced eastward.
		Eisenhower’s orders from the Combined Chiefs of Staff, the military leaders of Britain and the U.S., were to defeat the German army in northwest Europe, and they did not require him to capture Berlin.
		General Marshall, Chief of Staff of the United States Army and the dominant force on the Combined Chiefs of Staff, usually discussed these kinds of wartime political decisions with President Roosevelt.
	www.eisenhowermemorial.org /stories/Berlin.htm (853 words)

	The National World War II Museum, New Orleans
		Eisenhower described Tedder "not only as a brilliant airman but as a staunch supporter of the 'allied' principle." In North Africa, Tedder introduced an effective campaign of surgical "carpet" bombing to knock out strategic German defenses and supply lines.
		General Bradley severely restricted the number of items issued to soldiers, so that they would not be weighed down by extra gear when they landed in Normandy.
		Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of America's 26th president and, at age 56, the oldest member of the assault forces, was with the first wave.
	www.ddaymuseum.org /education/history_dday.html (8204 words)

	Saving Private Ryan: Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A capable officer, Eisenhower spent all of World War I stateside, and was not able to command troops in battle (the war ended just as he was about to receive his first combat command).
		From 1949 to 1950 Eisenhower served as the president of Columbia University, after which he returned to active duty to serve as the supreme commander of NATO from 1950 to 1952.
		Eisenhower was elected President of the United States in 1952, and served two terms from 1953 to 1961.
	www.sproe.com /e/eisenhower.html (354 words)

	Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Turning to politics in 1952, Eisenhower proved to be a successful commander in that field also.
		Eisenhower, Dwight D. 34th president of the United States (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II.
		Eisenhower, Dwight D. In World War II Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower became one of the most successful commanders in history.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274137 (758 words)

	34th President, Eisenhower's Birthplace State Historical Park, General Dwight David Eisenhower, born Denison, Texas, ...
		On the morning of October 14, 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower was born in a modest two-story frame house at the corner of Lamar Avenue and Day Street in Denison, Texas.
		The future leader of the free world in war and peace was born in a railroad neighborhood, with the family home nestled within a few yards of three railroad lines.
		Eisenhower's Birthplace is open year round, and closed on Christmas and New Year's.
	www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org (553 words)

	General Eisenhower of Kansas, Kansas HistoricalQuarterly, August, 1945
		Eisenhower operated a general storethere until 1888, when he went to Texas to work for a railroad.
		[15] Eisenhower was graduated in 1915 and wasassigned to the Nineteenth infantry at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
		The first landings were made in NormandyJune 6, 1944, and eleven months later Germany unconditionally surrendered.President Roosevelt's nomination of General Eisenhower as one of the fourfive-star generals of the army was unanimously confirmed by the senate onDecember 15, 1944.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1945/45_7_eisenhower.htm (6042 words)

	Ike with Paratroopers
		While I think the General thought his visit would boost the morale of our men, I honestly think it was his morale that was improved by being such a remarkably "high" group of troops.
		The other shot was apparently taken by an official Army photographer and is the one with the General's arm raised as he spoke.
		Harvey said the General recalled the incident and he signed a copy of the photo which I still have.
	www.eisenhowerbirthplace.org /troops.htm (1212 words)

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