Dwight D. Eisenhower was a man who rose to great heights, but he was always a man of modesty. Like so many figures who excelled in America, his rise was to prominence was far from certain, but a ...

When the Western Allies needed a supreme commander for the newly created North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949, they unanimously agreed that Dwight Eisenhower ... of State John Foster Dulles ...

Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower was given command of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion force that was the greatest ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower often ranks third in importance, behind only Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Eisenhower negotiated an armistice in the Korean War only six months after taking office.

McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees ... fiery demands for their expulsion. Dwight Eisenhower found Joseph McCarthy's demagoguery ...

President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As ... notion of a "fortress America" isolated from the rest of the world, safe behind its nuclear shield.