On 8 October 2010 03:36, Joe lOBO <[email protected]> wrote: > Venantius, > In my opinion President Eisenhower was just the same of > one of your signatories to the Declaration of Independence > ie: General George Washington.....he beleived that all men > were equal, except Black people...
Eisenhower enrolled at the United States Military Academy at West Point in June 1911. His parents, who were against militarism, did not object to his entering West Point because they supported his education. In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, a premier private university in New York; it was not a good fit in either direction. Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since James Buchanan in 1856.[42] Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th century, and the most recent President to have never held elected office prior to the Presidency. His cabinet, consisting of several corporate executives and one labor leader, was dubbed by one journalist, "Eight millionaires and a plumber." One of Eisenhower's enduring achievements was championing and signing the bill that authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956. He justified the project through the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 as essential to American security during the Cold War. It was believed that large cities would be targets in a possible future war, and the highways were designed to evacuate them and allow the military to move in. Soon after taking office, the Eisenhower administration authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to help the Iranian army overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, and restore the Shah to power. After the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United States became the protector of unstable friendly governments in the Middle East via the "Eisenhower Doctrine". Drafted by, and the brainchild of, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, it held the U.S. would be "prepared to use armed force...[to counter] aggression from any country controlled by international communism." Further, the United States would provide economic and military aid and, if necessary, use military force to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East. Jordan... Lebanon... Egypt... Syria... in 1954, Eisenhower did offer military and economic aid to the new nation of South Vietnam.[54] In the years that followed, Eisenhower increased the number of US military advisors in South Vietnam to 900 men... The Eisenhower administration declared racial discrimination a national security issue, meaning that the Communists around the world were using racial discrimination in the U.S. as a point of propaganda attack. Eisenhower left most political actions to his Vice President, Richard Nixon. Eisenhower was instrumental in the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, and the 1956 adoption of "In God We Trust" as the motto of the United States, and its 1957 introduction on paper currency. He was a five-star general in the United States Army. Eisenhower was also criticized for his handling of the 1960 U-2 incident and the international embarrassment, the Soviet Union's perceived leadership in the Arms race and the Space race, and his failure to publicly oppose McCarthyism. In particular, Eisenhower was criticized for failing to defend George Marshall from attacks by Joseph McCarthy, though he privately deplored McCarthy's tactics and claims. In the book Other Losses (1989), the Canadian writer James Bacque controversially claims that Eisenhower deliberately caused the death of 790,000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949. After Eisenhower left office, his reputation declined and he was seen as having been a "do-nothing" President. Historians typically rank Eisenhower among the ten greatest U.S. presidents. SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490
