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  Milton S. Eisenhower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eisenhower served as Director of Information for the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1928 to 1941.
In 1980, Eisenhower appeared on the ballot in Texas as the running mate of Congressman John B. Anderson, Independent candidate for President of the United States.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Auditorium, a 2,595 seat center for the performing arts on the University Park campus of Penn State, opened in 1974.
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 BookRags: Milton Eisenhower Summary
Milton Stover Eisenhower, the last of six sons of David and Ida (Stover) Eisenhower, was born on September 15, 1899, in Abilene, Kansas, a farm-oriented town of about 5,000.
As a 20-year-old freshman, Eisenhower was a standout.
Eisenhower was the first president of the prestigious private institution not to have an earned doctorate, but it did not deter his fundraising.
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 Milton Stover Eisenhower
Eisenhower was born in Kansas, worked his way through Kansas State College and, upon graduation, served for several years as American vice consul in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Eisenhower's tenure as President of Penn State coincided with his brother's tenure as President of the United States.
As late as a decade before Eisenhower's administration, and primarily because federal research grants were oriented toward agricultural interests, research activity in engineering, mineral industries and sciences received secondary attention.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/presidents/eisenhower.htm   (900 words)

  
 Milton Stover Eisenhower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The seventh son of David and Ida Eisenhower, Milton Stover, was born September 15, 1899.
Milton applied for a foreign service post, and on advice of Dr. Jardine, took a position in the U.S. Consulate in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was offered to him.
Milton states in his book, The President is Calling, that his job was not to decide if the Japanese should be relocated, but how it could be accomplished.
www.eisenhower.archives.gov /BMIL.HTM   (555 words)

  
 Milton Stover Eisenhower
The youngest of six brothers, all of whom became famous in their own right, Milton Stover Eisenhower turned to education and became head of three major universities during a 30 year span of his life.
But the achievement for which Eisenhower was most proud was breaking down the system of racial segregation in Manhattan at Kansas State.
In 1971 Eisenhower was asked to return for an additional year at John Hopkins at the age of 72.
www.kshs.org /portraits/eisenhower_milton.htm   (243 words)

  
 PENN STATE: an illustrated history, Michael Bezilla
Eisenhower was the first of the College's presidents to be well-known outside the academic community, and the fact that he was the younger brother of World War II hero General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hardly a liability.
Eisenhower had little difficulty getting the board of trustees to approve the name change, and in September 1953 it was submitted to the State Council of Education for approval and to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, which officially recorded names of all bodies incorporated in Pennsylvania.
Milton Eisenhower discovered that a certain amount of ill will had imbedded itself in relationships between the administration and the faculty, the administration and the students, and even between the institution and its alumni.
www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/psua/psgeneralhistory/bezillapshistory/083s09.htm   (14089 words)

  
 Dwight D. Eisenhower: a centennial bibliography
As experts on Dwight Eisenhower, his era, and his administration, historians Ambrose and Immerman were familiar with the role Milton Eisenhower played as an adviser to his brother.
While General Eisenhower was directing his forces to victory in North Africa, his eighty-plus-year-old mother talked to Elmer Peterson about raising her sons in a household where life was simple and self-sufficient and all the young men thrived.
His is a revisionist interpretation of Eisenhower as a capable, shrewd, and highly intelligent leader who controlled and directed U.S. diplomatic activities as the crisis rose and abated-despite a heart attack and later surgery for ileitis.
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 Why Eisenhower Hid His JehovahĂ•s Witness Background
Eisenhower's boys were what she and other Witnesses called "in the truth," she was hopeful that they would someday again embrace the religion in which they were raised.
Edgar Eisenhower stated that his father left the Watchtower partly because he "couldn't go along with the sheer dogma that was so much a part of their thinking." His sons later adamantly claimed that David accompanied his wife on Watchtower activities primarily in an effort to appease her.
Eisenhower's allegiance to the Watchtower waned as she got older, this would not affect the fact that her boys were raised as Witnesses, but would help us to better understand Ida Eisenhower.
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 president Eisenhower's Top 5 Most Admired Contemporaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eisenhower admired him for his breadth of knowledge and heavily relied on his expertise in world affairs.
Nevertheless, Eisenhower exploited the public's perception of his Secretary, using him as a shield to deflect criticism of foreign policy away from himself.
Eisenhower called him one of the ablest men he ever knew and one to whom he owed an incalculable debt.
www.nps.gov /eise/5accomp3.htm   (440 words)

  
 Presidential Papers, Doc#460 Personal and confidential To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 9 October 1953. In The Papers of ...
Milton had forwarded a letter addressed to him from author and diplomat Nicholas Roosevelt (A.B. Harvard 1914).
In a separate cover note accompanying this response (Oct. 9) Eisenhower told Milton that he had no "real objection" to Roosevelt's reading his reply, but "under no circumstances is he to be allowed to use it or keep it" (AWF/A).
Eisenhower sent copies of Roosevelt's letter to Bryce Harlow, C. Jackson, and Herbert Brownell for comment (memorandums, Eisenhower to Jackson and Eisenhower to Brownell, both dated Oct. 10, 1953, AWF/A).
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/460.cfm   (1311 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins Gazette: September 13, 1999
Yet he was the only man to serve twice as the university's president--first from 1956 to 1967, and again for a 10-month period between 1971 and 1972--and he touched the lives of countless students in a remarkable, deeply personal way.
Milton S. Eisenhower and his friends and colleagues, including Ross Jones at left, celebrated the president's 75th birthday in 1974 at a favorite destination: Memorial Stadium.
He was unquestionably the closest confidant of his brother during the Eisenhower administration, and he often chaired major presidential commissions, including the landmark Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, to which he was appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/1999/sep1399/13milton.html   (1390 words)

  
 Presidential Papers, Doc#85 To Milton Stover Eisenhower, 16 March 1953. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
The President wrote his brother on Monday; the preceding weekend Milton had attended a Friday-night dinner at the White House and then a Saturday-morning meeting on government reorganization (see the Chronology).
Milton's wife, Helen Eakin Eisenhower, had accompanied him to Washington.
Milton would respond on March 18 (AWF/N) by addressing Eisenhower's confessed need for "general assistance" of the kind that would help him anticipate and meet problems.
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/85.cfm   (366 words)

  
 Milton Eisenhower Justifies the Internment of Japanese Americans
He chose as its first head Milton Eisenhower, a New Deal bureaucrat in the Department of Agriculture and brother of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He claimed that the Japanese “cheerfully” participated in the relocation process, a statement belied by all contemporary and subsequent accounts of the 1942 events.
Milton Eisenhower: When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, our West Coast became a potential combat zone.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5153   (511 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Eisenhower, Milton Stover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
EISENHOWER, MILTON STOVER [Eisenhower, Milton Stover] 1899-1985, American educator and public official, b.
Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (now Kansas State Univ.), 1924; brother of Dwight David Eisenhower.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Eisenhower, Milton Stover" at HighBeam.
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 Campus Map - Eisenhower Chapel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Helen Eakin Eisenhower was the wife of Milton S. Eisenhower, who was the president of Penn State throughout construction of the chapel.
Milton S. Eisenhower was also the brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was the 34th president of the United States.
At its peak usage as the only all-faith chapel on campus, there were six campus ministries and 28 worship schedules in a typical week.
www.campusmaps.psu.edu /buildings/eisenhowerchap.shtml   (136 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Eisenhower, Dwight David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Eisenhower Dwight David Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
Eisenhower, Dwight David EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID [Eisenhower, Dwight David], 1890-1969, American general and 34th President of the United States, b.
Eisenhower, Milton Stover EISENHOWER, MILTON STOVER [Eisenhower, Milton Stover] 1899-1985, American educator and public official, b.
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 Abilene: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Abilene was the boyhood home of President Dwight D. Eisenhower ; the Eisenhower Center includes his old family homestead, a museum, the Eisenhower Library, and his grave.
EISENHOWER, MILTON STOVER 1899 1985, American educator and public official, b.
He entered (1911) West Point and...In 1962 the Eisenhower presidential library was dedicated at Abilene, Kans. Bibliography See Eisenhowers memoirs of his years...
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 Infoplease Search: eisenhower
(Almanac - History and Government) Dwight David Eisenhower Born: 10/14/1890 Birthplace: Denison, Tex. Dwight David Eisenhower was born...
Eisenhower, Milton S. (Almanac - People) Eisenhower, Milton S. educator Birthplace: Abilene, Kans. Born: 1899 Died: 1985 Information...
(Encyclopedia) Presidency Eisenhower was sought as a nominee for presidency of the United States in 1948 but...
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 Amazon.com: Eisenhower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 Mayoral Speeches: JHU Milton Eisenhower Symposium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I appreciate that she thought to include a local perspective in a speaker series that is mostly national in outlook.
In reading about the Eisenhower Symposium, I noticed that Senator Gary Hart, one of my personal heroes, was a speaker a few years back.
I worked on his presidential campaign a hundred years ago when I was your age.
www.ci.baltimore.md.us /mayor/speeches/sp100300.html   (1602 words)

  
 The Politics
Youngest brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower, he was appointed as the first Director of the WRA.
The loss of hundreds of property leases and the disappearance of a number of equities in land and buildings which had been built up over the major portion of a lifetime were among the most regrettable and least justifiable of all the many costs of the wartime evacuation.
After becoming WRA Director following Milton Eisenhower's resignation, Myer had to walk the line between anti-Japanese congressmen on the outside and anti-establishment resisters on the inside.
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 Eisenhower Library
Subject: Eisenhower's kind of leadership and the lack of understanding some of his staff had of it.
Entrance into administration at Columbia during Eisenhower's presidency; temporary dean of the School of General Studies in 1948; dean of graduate faculties of philosophy, political science, and pure science in 1949-1951.
Member of the Advisory Committee for the Eisenhower campaign of 1952; Special Counsel to President Eisenhower, 1953-55; Appointment Secretary to President Eisenhower, 1955-57.
www.ibiblio.org /lia/president/EisenhowerLibrary/oral_histories/Oral.html   (859 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Milton Stover Eisenhower (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Milton Stover Eisenhower (Education, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Milton Stover Eisenhower 1899–1985, American educator and public official, b.
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 The Johns Hopkins University: Milton S. Eisenhower Library Preservation Program
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSEL) was opened in 1964.
The building is patterned after the Georgian structures that surround it and, to maintain a harmonious scale, only two levels of MSEL's six stories rise above ground.
Papers are received by the compiler in the Fall following the meeting and the author is welcome to make revisions, minor or major.
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 Library Digital Programs - Library Digital Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The LDP prioritizes its activities based on the prioritization criteria developed by the Sheridan Libraries' Executive Committee.
The Sheridan Libraries encompass the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall, the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House and the George Peabody Library at Mt. Vernon Place.
In 1998 these libraries were re-dedicated as "The Sheridan Libraries" to reflect the extraordinary generosity of Mr.
ldp.library.jhu.edu   (218 words)

  
 Johns Hopkins University: Campus Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In April 1965, the University trustees unanimously voted to name the library in honor of
Milton Stover Eisenhower, president (pictured at right) of the University from 1956-67 and again from April 1971 to February 1972.
The Eisenhower Library building also contains the Center for the Study of Recent American History, which is editing and publishing the papers of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
www.jhu.edu /~tour/library.html   (262 words)

  
 Truman Library Photograph Search
Title: Board of trustees of Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, Inc.
Darby, Harry, 1895-1987, Docking, George, 1904-1964, Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969, Eisenhower, Milton Stover, 1899-1985
The Harry S. Truman Library is one of eleven Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration
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 Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ann P Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield.
They also discuss the ethics of surveying, how to edit and code survey data, how to analyze survey results, and how to create a compelling written or verbal report of the survey.
Each of the next several chapters is a library web site usability case study that employs a different usability method.
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 Alternate Link Names Suggested in First Iteration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Facts about the Milton S. Eisenhower Library ///// General Information about the Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Borrowing Eisenhower Library Materials ///// Eisenhower Library Materials Circulation
Eisenhower Express: On-Campus Delivery Service ///// Eisenhower Express: On-Campus Document Delivery Service
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