Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States.

During World War

II, he was the Commanding General of of the US Forces in the European Theater. D
wight Eisenhower was undoubtedly one of America's greatest military commanders.
DDE was born in Dennison Texas on October 14th 1890. Dwight Eisenhower graduated
from West point in the class of 1915, the class the star fell on, because so ma
ny of its members became general officers in World War II. He was then stationed
in Texas and there is where he met his wife Mamie Doud. During World War I, Eis
nhower steadly rose through the ranks, although he never left the US mainland. F
ar the World War II, Eisenhower was serving with General Douglas MacArthur in th
e Phillipines, and was at that time the Lieutenant Coronel. Eisenhower was broug
ht back to the US in 1939 by Army Chief of Staff General George C Marshall. Gene
ral Marshall saw that Eisenhower was quickly promoted from Lieutenant Coronel to
Major General and had him command Operation Torch which was the Invasion of No
rth Africa in 1942, This was followed by the invasion of Sicily and mainland Ita
ly in 1943, and the Invasion of France in 1944. He was in charge of Operation Ov
erlord, the Operation which resulted in the invasion of Normandy on June 6th 194
4,the day that we know as D-Day. Dwight D Eisenhower was a great political gener
al, what is exactly what he as called for to keep the Alliance together during W
orld War II. Eisenhower received a hero's welcome when he returned to the US aft
er the war in 1945. He then served as the Army Chief of Staff before leaving the
service in 1948 to become president of Columbia University. In 1950, Eisenhower
returned to military service when President Harry Truman asked him to become th
e NATO Supreme Commander which was a newly created position. In 1952 Eisenhowe s
tepped down from his NATO position and ran for president. In the November 1952 e
lection he won the first of his two presidential terms in a landslide victory. H
e continued many of the policies of the New Deal and FDR and Harry Truman, even
though he was a Republican. On Civil rights in 1957, there was the Little Rock S
chool Crisis. The Governor of Arkansas didn't want to let African-american child
ren enter the all white schools. Eisenhower sent Federal troops to make sure tha
t those students got to have their education there at the Central High School in
Little Rock. Eisenhower's foreign policy achievements include the Armstice that
ended the Korean War, a ramping up of the Cold War where he increased surveilla
nce against the communism. DDW's lasting visible legacy interesting enough came
in infrastructure. He was the father of the interstate highway system. He also c
reated NASA. Eisenhower was never known as a great public speaker but many peopl
e believed that his final speech as president was his greatest one. In that spee
ch he expressed his concern about big business and the military establishment ex
erting too much influence on America's everyday life. Those concerns remain with
us to this day. After his presidency, Eisenhower retired to a farmhouse in Gett
ysburg, Pennsylvania with his wife in 1961. He died on March 28 1969.