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Colorado, August 1953. There was peace in Korea, a booming economy, and Congress was in recess. A happy President enjoys one of his favorite pastimes.
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Colorado, August 1953. There was peace in Korea, a booming economy, and Congress was in recess. A happy President enjoys one of his favorite pastimes.
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President Eisenhower delivers his inaugural address, January 20, 1953. The sun shone, typical Eisenhower luck.
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Press conference, April 30, 1953. Ike carefully cultivated his relations with the reporters, with whom he was obviously relaxed. He held more press conferences than any President before or since.
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Quantico, Virginia, July 24, 1953. How could one help but like him?
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Eisenhower receives a first-hand report from Walter Robinson, his personal envoy to Korea, who had returned that day, July 15, 1953, from meetings wtih Syngman Rhee, who was being difficult.
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A fateful handshake. Eisenhower and McCarthy, Milwaukee, October 1952, on the occasion of Eisenhower’s removal of a paragraph praising George Marshall, in deference to McCarthy. Some of Ike’s worst problems as President flowed from this handshake.
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Nixon, Eisenhower, and Earl Warren, February 4, 1954. Ike appointed Warren Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the simplest of reasons: he knew it was his most important appointment, and he wanted it to be the best. He thought Warren was the best; later, he had his doubts.
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Eisenhower, Jim Hagerty, and Murry Snyder returning to the White House from a press conference at the EOB, March 3, 1954. One can just hear Ike telling Hagerty and Snyder, “Well, boys, we really fooled ’em this time, didn’t we?”
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Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur, March 18, 1954. MacArthur’s advice tended to be “Nuke ’em.” Ike was dubious.
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Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles listen to Chip Bohlen at the conference table in Geneva’s Palais des Nations, July 18, 1955. Two days later Eisenhower made his Open Skies proposal.
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Eisenhower and Dulles, October 25, 1954. Typically, they are at the airport, aides are scurrying behind them, the plane is about to take off, and Dulles is waiting for Ike’s approval of his next speech before departing for who knew where.
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August 1, 1954, Camp David. Eisenhower is painting a portrait of Barbara and her children, David, Anne and Susan.
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The Eisenhowers at Gettysburg, September 1956.
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Father and son on their way to the Yankee-Dodger opening game of the 1956 World Series. In his father’s second term, John became an invaluable member of the White House staff, serving as Goodpaster’s assistant. After 1961, he spent two years working for his father on the White House memoirs.
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Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery at Gettysburg, with Jim Hagerty. Monty’s judgment, loudly expressed, was that both Meade and Lee should have been sacked.
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Lewis Strauss, just back from Geneva test ban talks, confers with Eisenhower at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, August 22, 1955. Strauss could always find good reasons to oppose any limitation on testing.
Herblock captures a bit of the ambiguity in the Eisenhower-Republican Party relationship.
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Andrew Goodpaster, Roland Hughes, Eisenhower, Gerald Morgan, and Gabriel Hauge, at a budget meeting, January 3, 1956, in Newport, Rhode Island. Ike had a habit of chewing on the earpiece of his glasses when he was in deep thought.
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Eisenhower and Nixon on one of the few occasions they played golf together. Ike often complained that “Dick hasn’t matured,” but he kept him on the ticket in 1956 and supported him wholeheartedly in 1960. Whatever his reservations about Nixon, Eisenhower wanted the best for his country, and he thought Nixon far superior to his competition.
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In a famous photo, the President’s grandchildren and the Vice-President’s children meet for the first time, on Inauguration Day, 1957. Ann and David Eisenhower, Tricia and Julie Nixon.
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Jim Hagerty advises Eisenhower on camera angles prior to a Presidential talk on the budget. Ike was the first President to take full advantage of television and, as can be seen, prepared carefully for his appearances. May 14, 1957.
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Another fateful handshake, this time with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, Newport, R.I., September 14, 1957. Herbert Brownell, in the background, warned Ike that Faubus could not be trusted, but Faubus had just promised he would remove the Arkansas National Guard troops around Little Rock Central High. When he got home, the governor double-crossed the President, forcing Ike to act decisively.
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A meeting of legislative leaders, March 6, 1959. Left to right: Charles Halleck, Allen Dulles, Everett Dirksen, Christian Herter, Sam Rayburn, Neil McElroy, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon. Eisenhower carefully courted the Congressional leaders.
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Eisenhower presents the Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Arthur Radford, August 8, 1957. As Chairman of the JCS, Radford often offered recommendations that went beyond anything Eisenhower was willing to do. Still, they worked effectively together.
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Sir Winston Churchill rides with the President on his last visit to the United States. May 4, 1959.
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Another comrade-in-arms from World War II, Charles de Gaulle, visits the President in the Oval Office, April 22, 1960.
Eisenhower and Khrushchev, September 1959, during Khrushchev’s visit to the United States. They never liked or trusted each other, but they came close to calling a halt to the arms race. It came to naught at the Paris Summit in May 1960.
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Eisenhower and Kennedy on their way to Kennedy’s inauguration. The oldest President to that date had to hand over to the youngest man elected to the office, and he hated doing it. His opinion of Kennedy did not go up in the years that followed.
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Walter Cronkite interviews Eisenhower for the CBS program, “D-Day Plus Twenty Years.” They are sitting in Southwick House, Ike’s invasion headquarters, in front of the operation map at SHAEF, set for June 6,1944.
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Eisenhower meeting with Johnson and his advisers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, February 16, 1965. At this critical meeting, Ike was hawkish on Vietnam. From left to right: Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Johnson, Eisenhower, General Earl Wheeler, and Andrew Goodpaster.
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Eisenhower leaves the White House, August 30, 1965, again urging Johnson to go for victory in Vietnam.
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Eisenhower and Andrew Goodpaster. In the White House, Goodpaster was the indispensable man, the one the President leaned on and relied on more than any other. During Ike’s retirement, Goodpaster was his liaison with Johnson on the Vietnam War.
