A scarce bronze Assay Commission medal from 1958 featuring Dwight Eisenhower and themed from his "Atoms for Peace" speech sold for $2,040 ...

1953 Speech: Atoms for Peace President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave what is known as the "Atoms for Peace" speech before the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953. He stated ...

I first encountered Dwight David Eisenhower in sixth grade during our ... The night before the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the American general, unable to sleep, smoked heavily.

Dwight D. Eisenhower ran on the campaign of active Cold War containment, pledging “I shall go to Korea” to secure “an early and honorable” peace. Challenges: In 1957, the Soviet Sputnik—the world’s ...

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and overthrow the German-backed Vichy government. By late summer of 1944, as ...

The London manor that former Supreme Allied Commander and President Dwight D. Eisenhower called home in ... escape his wartime responsibilities in peace. “Only a select circle of confidants ...

"You look back in the 1950s, you look back at the Eisenhower administration, take a look at what they did, and it worked," ...

When Dwight D. Eisenhower became president, he aimed to overhaul the Pentagon and balance America’s defense spending with ...

West Point graduate Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly climbed the Army career ladder, serving under Generals John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur and ultimately achieving the rank of five-star general.

Dwight D. Eisenhower then became the 34th President of the United States. The new Commander in Chief soon made good on his campaign promise of bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula. Just months ...