#Eisenhower

[kate-texas-bishop]

I’m trying so hard to be a historian of American Mythology and it’s all about the r/terraforum hashtag self promotion yeet

#lol #not les mis #kenergy #oppenbarbie #eisenhower #the matrix #the magnus archives

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I sat silently just reviewing these things maybe, I’d say, thirty-five or forty-five seconds. Now it’s been reported by some of the people present for example my own Chief of Staff says that’s five minutes, well I know that wasn’t - but five minutes under such conditions sounds like a year. Actually I’d think after thirty, forty-five seconds something like that I just got up and said okay, we’ll go and, uh, every - this room was emptied in two seconds. Well of course that’s the most terrible time for the senior commander, he’d done all that he can do, all the planning and matter of fact there’s very little more that any commander above division command can do anything once you get started. And then finally along about six in the evening I went over to the field from which the airborne, the American airborne, started out. And um, there was a very fine experience. They were getting ready and all camouflaged and their faces blackened and all this. And there they saw me and of course they recognised me and they said, ah, quit worrying General we’ll take care of this thing for you. And that kind of thing was a good feeling. As they started off, I watched them out of sight.

- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower talks with paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in Newbury, England, on 5 June 1944, prior to their departure for their role in the D-day invasion, dropping behind enemy lines. The soldier with a “23” tag was a fellow Kansan, Lt. Wallace C. Strobel.

#general dwight d eisenhower #eisenhower #quote #D Day #DDay #normandy #war #second world war #US army #history #invasion

[todaysdocument]

Press Release, President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Statement on the Signing of S. 50, the Act Providing for the Admission of Hawaii into the Union

Collection DDE-WHCF: White House Central Files (Eisenhower Administration)Series: Official FilesFile Unit: OF 147-E Hawaii (10)

Immediate Release March 18, 1959 James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President The White House Statement on the Signing of S. 50 March 18, 1959 It has given me great satisfaction to sign the Act providing for the admission of Hawaii into the Union. Since my inauguration in 1953 I have consistently urged that this legislation be enacted, so the action of the Congress as early in this session is most gratifying. Under this legislation, the citizens of Hawaii will soon decide whether their Islands shall become our fiftieth State. In so doing, they will demonstrate anew to the world the vitality of the principles of freedom and self-determination -- the principles upon which this Nation was founded 172 years ago. # # # # # # #

#archivesgov #March 18 #1959 #1950s #eisenhower #dwight eisenhower #hawaii #hawaiʻi

[pazzesco]

An AI Art Thread Literally No One Asked For — U.S. Presidents As Disney Princesses

#art #u s presidents #bush #obama #roosevelt #eisenhower #clinton #potrait #portraits #portraiture #weird #weirdness #humor #washington #trump #paintings

[oldshowbiz]

Carleton Putnam and the extremely racist origins of Delta Airlines.

#carleton putnam #delta air lines #airplanes #civil rights era #corporations #america #eisenhower

[ijustkindalikebooks]

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower.

#booklr #books #bookblr #fiction #reading #quote #quotes #quotation #quotations #book quote #book quotes #book quotation #book quotations #eisenhower #dwight d eisenhower #book #books and reading

[rebelyells]

Eisenhower was a great fan of Robert E Lee. Lee saved the Nation!

#civil war #confederate #southerners #robert e lee #eisenhower #dwight eisenhower #states rights #gravestones #virginia #history #Youtube

[dbunicorn]

American Surgeons Return from Gaza, Call for End of U.S. Culpability in ...

Try a human centric view. Not religious/ethnic. See your own children & grandchildren on both sides of the divide. Imagine the generations of anger, dispossession. Bleeding heart or not. You know this truth.

Most people trust medical professionals for a reason. Is this a just response or revenge? Naive or not, the long term trajectory of these events will be passed to your children.

There is no total victory. Just rage, trauma, politics, loss.

#social media #media #peace #childrens rights #united nations #eisenhower #military #military strategy #Youtube

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

#D-Day #6 June 1944 #General Eisenhower #Dwight Eisenhower #Normandy #France #Nazi #Nazis #invasion #World War Two #World War 2 #WW2 #Eisenhower #victory

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

From a letter by Dwight David Eisenhower to his older brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower, Nov 8, 1954:

#Eisenhower #rule of reason #letters #history #1950s #political

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I never realised before the loneliness and isolation of a commander at a time when such a momentous decision has to be taken, with the full knowledge that failure or success rests on his judgment alone.

- Lt.Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

General Dwight D. Eisenhower rose to that occasion with character and greatness when he made the fateful decision to launch D Day on 6 June 1944. But he couldn’t have done anything he planned without the support of his feared chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.

When Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower became commander of ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations United States Army) in June 1942 and began assembling his staff in London, the man he requested as his chief of staff was Brig. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, at the time the secretary of the War Department General Staff. But Eisenhower’s boss, Gen. George Marshall, balked. Smith had impressed Marshall with his ability to cut through red tape and perform necessary hatchet jobs – to get things done fast and well – and he didn’t want to let Smith go. But finally, on Aug. 5, Marshall relented. Smith arrived in London on Sept. 10. In his biography, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, historian Carlo D’Este wrote, “Eisenhower once remarked that every commander needs a son of a bitch to protect him and that the stone-faced Bedell Smith was his.”

Gustave Flaubert wrote, “You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies.” By that measure alone, Smith was not just a good chief of staff – he was a great one. Most people who came in contact with Smith hated and feared him – and with good reason. Smart, loyal to his bosses, articulate, incisive, and an excellent administrator, “Beetle” Smith was also intolerant, brusque, profane, rude, and ruthless.

Smith was also famous for his quick temper. Whether the result of his personality, or pain from a duodenal ulcer that occasionally forced him to be hospitalized, its volatility caused some exasperated senior officers to violate military protocol, bypass the chief of staff, and meet directly with Eisenhower to request transfers. Tellingly, Eisenhower tolerated that breach.

The position of chief of staff is often thankless. But it’s necessary. As one of the members of Eisenhower’s staff, Air Marshal Sir James Robb, later wrote, “Ike always had to have . . . someone who’d do the dirty work for him. He always had to have someone else do the firing, or the reprimanding, or give any order which he knew people would find unpleasant.” That someone was Smith and, whether or not he actually enjoyed that duty, everyone acknowledged that he was damned good at it.

Eisenhower often entrusted Smith to represent him in high-level strategic meetings, which led some people to remark that the reason Eisenhower did so was that Smith had a better strategic mind than his boss. Eisenhower’s esteem of Smith ultimately became so great that he told Marshall that if anything happened to cause him to be unable to carry out his duties as head of SHAEF, Marshall should, “after [General Omar] Bradley, select Bedell to take my place.”

Expanding on Eisenhower’s orders to have an “allied” command, Smith freely, and with great effect, utilized the technique of layering the different sections. Thus if one section had a British commanding officer, his deputy was an American, and vice versa. Smith also was a master of promoting informal communication channels, and his relatively informal staff conferences freed Eisenhower to concentrate on the most important or critical command decisions. Though problems did occur, that Eisenhower’s staff worked as smoothly as it did was a testament to Smith’s success as chief of staff.

#bedell smith #general walter bedell smith #quote #general eisenhower #eisenhower #second world war #normandy #war #D Day #DDay #leadership #planning #US Army

[todaysdocument]

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

[silverfroot]

Bought a notebook to register my tasks with Eisenhower method.

Bought another notebook to put on info that I'll need on handy all the time. Like this one about the law over interchangeable medicines.

Found this book on my drive, about law and practices on pharmacy. Well, it's a MUST reading, for sure. (Classified as on non urgent, but important task)

#studying #pharmacist #pharmblr #pharmacyblr #pharmacy #eisenhower #Tasks #Daily tasks #Organization #organizing tips #Organizing daily tasks #Journaling #my journal #study motivation #pharma student

[oldshowbiz]

Variety criticized military contractors for sponsoring television specials about the US military.

#eisenhower #foreign policy

[theworldatwar]

US General Eisenhower (with binoculars)watches as US tank crews undergo training exercises just before D-day - 1944

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #wwii #ww2 history #wwii era #world war 2 #usmc #usarmy #ww2history #eisenhower #tank crew #tanks #light tank #world of tanks #sherman tank #dday

[dailyhistoryposts]

Did You Know?

The original version of the US Pledge of Allegiance, written in 1892, did not include the phrase 'under God'. It was written by a Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy, who was also a Christian socialist. Bellamy believed in the absolute separation of church and state.

'Under God' was added in 1954 under President Eisenhower to combat the perceived threat of secular Communism.

#history #us history #christian history #catholic #socialism #communism #capitalism #baptist #eisenhower #19th century #20th century #francis bellamy