#Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#Dwight D. Eisenhower #saw this pic and just had to

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This political cartoon will be relevant as long as the US continues to exist.

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

#war #political cartoons #priorities #quotes #Dwight D. Eisenhower

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On June 5, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, talks to members of the 101st Airborne just hours before they depart to jump into Nazi occupied France and spearhead Operation Overlord.

(Photo courtesy of US Army)

#dday #operation overlord #us army #101st airborne #dwight d. eisenhower #normandy #france #world war 2 #wwii #military #history

[deadpresidents]

To give a more serious answer to that earlier question about whether any Presidents were able to fly, yes, there were three who were trained as pilots.

The most famous is indeed George H.W. Bush, who was the youngest U.S. Navy aviator during World War II, and flew 58 combat missions in the Pacific during the war. He was shot down during a bombing mission over Chichi Jima, an island in an archipelago between Guam and the Japanese mainland in September 1944 and had to be rescued from the Pacific Ocean by an American submarine. That was just a few months after he was also forced to ditch his TMB Avenger bomber in the ocean -- while it still was fully loaded with the bombs for the mission he was on -- and barely escaped the plane before it exploded.

His son, George W. Bush, had a much-less decorated and much-more maligned military "career", but he was trained as a military aviator in the Texas National Guard. Bush 43's most famous flight was as a passenger while President when he landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln for the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech, but he was definitely a trained pilot.

The first President to earn a pilot's license was actually Dwight D. Eisenhower. Despite his background as a career military officer, Eisenhower was not trained as a military aviator -- he earned a private pilot's license in 1939.

#History #Presidents #Presidential History #Presidential Backgrounds #George H.W. Bush #Bush 41 #President Bush #George W. Bush #Bush 43 #Dwight D. Eisenhower #President Eisenhower #General Eisenhower #Pilots #World War II #WWII #Pilot's license #Presidential Pilots

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Presidential Proclamation 3282 of April 18, 1959, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower declaring May 1, 1959 Loyalty Day.

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Presidential Proclamations

LOYALTY DAY, 1959

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS loyalty to the United States of America, its democratic traditions and institutions, and the liberties embodied in our Constitution is essential to the preservation of our freedoms in a world threatened by totalitarianism; and

WHEREAS it is fitting and proper that we reaffirm by special observance our loyalty to our country and our gratitude for the precious heritage of freedom and liberty under law; and

WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution of July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369), has designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty Day, and has requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, educational, and other interested organizations, to observe Friday, May 1, 1959, as Loyalty Day, in schools and other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in which all of our people may join in the reaffirmation of their loyalty to the United States and the renewal of their dedication to the concepts of the freedom and dignity of man.

I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

By the President:

Robert Murphy

Acting Secretary of State

[black stamp] The National Archives and Records Service Filed and Made Available for Public Inspection APR 23 1 35 PM '59 in the Federal Register Division

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#archivesgov #April 18 #1959 #1950s #cold war #dwight d. eisenhower #eisenhower #loyalty day

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JFK's Inauguration, January 20, 1961.

#John F. Kennedy #Jacqueline Kennedy #Lyndon B. Johnson #Dwight D. Eisenhower #Richard Nixon #JFK's Inauguration

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Ryu Number: Georgy Zhukov

Georgy Zhukov, a Marshal of the Soviet Union who oversaw some of the Red Army's most decisive victories in the course of World War II, has a Ryu Number of 3.

Notably, he's the only Soviet Marshal to have been played by Jason Isaacs in a satirical black comedy subsequently banned in Russia. There aren't a lot of those.

#ryu number #ryu #super smash bros. ultimate #banjo #idarb #dwight d. eisenhower #axis & allies #axis & allies (2004) #georgy zhukov #Youtube

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Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

IKE & DICK.

Political sticker. Florence Marie Longest Scrapbook

#dwight d. eisenhower #richard nixon #president #vice president #campaign #political #politics #vintage #1950s #ephemera

[newyorkthegoldenage]

General Dwight D. Eisenhower addressing the crowds at City Hall after the parade welcoming him home from World War II, June 19, 1945.

Photo: CBS via Getty Images

#vintage New York #1940s #World War II #Dwight D. Eisenhower #crowds #NY City Hall #City Hall #vintage NYC #NYC

[davidhudson]

Dwight D. Eisenhower, October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969.

1964 photo by Richard Avedon.

#dwight d. eisenhower #richard avedon #presidents

[vyorei]

Unhelpful jackasses en route.

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #dwight d. eisenhower #USA

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

by Mr. Fish

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

#political cartoons #Mister Fish #war and peace #war #anti-war #Dwight D. Eisenhower

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George Clooney sounds like the name of an American president. Like there’s Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton all very presidential names. Dwight D Eisenhower however

#george clooney #usa #president of the united states #spy kids #gerald ford #bill clinton #dwight d. eisenhower

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Are there any notable Presidential speeches you know of that were fully written or prepared but never delivered for some reason? (Such as Nixon’s failed moon landing speech for Apollo 11)

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any specific speeches similar to the undelivered speech prepared in case of a disaster on Apollo 11 (which is still haunting to read even with the knowledge that everybody made it home safely).

Obviously, most Presidents and Presidential candidates prepare victory and concession speeches, but we don't usually see the speech that wasn't needed. Once some time had passed, Hillary Clinton did read the victory speech that she would have given had she not lost the 2016 election to Trump. It was before he was President, but General Dwight D. Eisenhower had prepared a short statement in 1944 to deliver in case the Allied landings on D-Day had failed.

It's not quite the same thing, but I have a fascinating book called Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed that is a collection of letters and notes that President Truman wrote while angry or annoyed but gave into his better judgment and held back on actually mailing. They are pretty entertaining.

#Speeches #Presidential Speeches #Presidents #History #Presidency #Politics #Undelivered Speeches #Richard Nixon #President Nixon #Apollo 11 #Hillary Clinton #2016 Election #Dwight D. Eisenhower #President Eisenhower #D-Day #World War II #Normandy Invasion #General Eisenhower #President Truman #Harry S. Truman #Strictly Personal and Confidential: The Letters That Harry Truman Never Mailed #Presidential Correspondence #Presidential Writing

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Presidential Proclamation 3269 of January 3, 1959, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower admitting the State of Alaska into the Union.

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Presidential Proclamations

ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF ALASKA INTO THE UNION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Congress of the United States by the act approved on July 7, 1958 (72 Stat. 339), accepted, ratified, and confirmed the constitution adopted by a vote of the people of Alaska in an election held on April 24, 1956, and provided for the admission of the State of Alaska into the Union on an equal footing with the other States of the Union upon compliance with certain procedural requirements specified in that act; and WHEREAS it appears from information before me that a majority of the legal votes cast at an election held on August 26, 1958, were in favor of each of the propositions required to be submitted to the people of Alaska by section 8 (b) of the act of July 7, 1958; and WHEREAS it further appears from information before me that a general election was held on November 25, 1958, and that the returns of the general election were made and certified as provided in the act of July 7, 1958; and WHEREAS the Acting Governor of Alaska has certified to me the results of the submission to the people of Alaska of the three propositions set forth in section 8 (b) of the act of July 7, 1958, and the results of the general election; and -2- WHEREAS I find and announce that the people of Alaska have duly adopted the propositions required to be submitted to them by the act of July 7, 1958, and have duly elected the officers required to be elected by that act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the procedural requirements imposed by the Congress on the State of Alaska to entitle that State to admission to the Union have been complied with in all respects and that admission of the State of Alaska into the Union on an equal footing with the other States of the Union is now accomplished. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington at one minute past noon on this third day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-none, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third. By the President: Dwight D. Eisenhower 3 January, 1959 Washington, D.C.

#archivesgov #January 3 #1959 #1950s #alaska #eisenhower #dwight d. eisenhower

[carbone14]

Le Capitaine Dwight D. Eisenhower ( à droite) avec trois amis (William Stuhler, le Major Sereno Elmer Brett et Paul V. Robinson) en 1919, quatre ans après avoir obtenu son diplôme de West Point

©Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

#Avant-guerre #Pre-war #Les femmes et les hommes de la guerre #Women and men of war #Personnages militaires #Figures militaires #Military figure #Personnages historiques #Historical figures #Dwight D. Eisenhower #Sereno Elmer Brett #1919