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 ...

In 1953, US President Harry Truman passed the reins of power to his successor, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Truman also gave Eisenhower a pretty hefty file concerning a top-secret project ...

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 ...

He later served as Secretary of State from 1947-49. During his tenure, a U.S. plan for post-war economic recovery in Europe went into effect and became known as "The Marshall Plan." WINSTON ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s often brutal effort to send as many as 1.3 million migrant workers back to Mexico. Under the operation that began in 1954, the Border Patrol, military and state and local ...

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.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower waves to spectators as he approaches ... where we were left standing for the rest of the day under sunny skies and unseasonably warm weather that grew colder as ...