President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...

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 ...

Ike changed the name of FDR's Maryland retreat from Shangri-la to Camp David. Eisenhower thought Shangri-la was "just a little too fancy for a Kansas farm boy." One of the greatest generals in ...

The move is being discussed as part of a possible restructuring of combatant commands that would help the Defense Department ...

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.

On April 1, 1969, the train carrying Dwight D. Eisenhower stopped here about 10 a.m. on its way from Washington, D.C. to Abilene, Kansas. People lined the tracks in Newport to pay their respects ...

WASHINGTON -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, the victorious allied commander of World War II who went on to become America's President in peace-time, died at 12:25 p.m. EST. He was 78. The famed general of ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

General Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces during the campaign following D-Day. Following the war he went on to become President of the United States of ...