-
Recent Posts
Archives
-
Join 282 other subscribers
Meta
Nifty Sites to Check
Categories
- A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog
- Abraham Lincoln
- American Civil War
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Johnson
- Benjamin Harrison
- Calvin Coolidge
- Chester Arthur
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin Pierce
- George Washington
- Grover Cleveland
- Harry S Truman
- Herbert Hoover
- James Buchanan
- James Garfield
- James K. Polk
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Adams
- John Quincy Adams
- John Tyler
- Martin Van Buren
- Millard Fillmore
- Nifty History People
- Presidential Sites
- Recommended Reading
- Rutherford Hayes
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Warren G. Harding
- William Henry Harrison
- William Howard Taft
- William McKinley
- Woodrow Wilson
- Zachary Taylor
Tag Archives: President Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Ike’s Last Mission
But The General’s Health… …was not very good. He had suffered a few aches and pains and illnesses during his first six decades. But they were nothing out of the ordinary for a man his age, and with the great … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady History, FIrst Lady Mamie Eisenhower, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Eisenhower, General Ike, history, Ike's Doctor Howard Snyder, Ike’s burial plans, Ike’s firstborn son, Ike’s guests at Gettysburg, Ike’s house in Gettysburg, Little Icky Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, President Eisenhower’s heart attack, President Eisenhower’s secret trip to Denver, Presidential doctor Howard Snyder, Presidential history, US history, Vice President Richard Nixon, White House history
Leave a comment
General Ike and Princess Elizabeth: First Meeting
General Eisenhower spent several months in England preparing for the D-Day Invasion in 1944. The King and Queen of WWII In no small part, the decisions and actions of Great Britain’s King George VI (1895-1952) were deeply influenced by the … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nifty History People
Tagged American history, British King George VI, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Eisenhower, General Ike, history, King Edward VIII, King George VI, King George VI of Great Britain, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential history, Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, Queen Consort Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth II, the abdication of Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, US history, Windsor Castle
Leave a comment
President Ike and the Interstate Highway System
POTUS Ike: The Early Advocate Dwight D. Eisenhower was a Lt. Colonel in the US Army in 1917, when US participation in The Great War began. He was deeply disappointed that he was not assigned to active military service abroad; … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tagged American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Early US roads, Eisenhower Interstate System, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Eisenhower, General Lucius Clay, history, Ike Eisenhower, Planning the US Interstate Highway System, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, Presidential history, Reasons for the US Interstate Highway System, The Interstate Highway Commission, U.S. Interstate Highway System, US roads in 1920, White House history
3 Comments
Eisenhower 1956: The Second Term Decision
At the end of his first term, Ike was 66,, and one of our oldest Presidents to that time. The Life of Duty, Honor, Country… Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), one of six strapping corn-fed farm boys, was accustomed to hard work … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tagged American history, Candidate Eisenhower in 1952, Feather Schwartz Foster, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Ike, Health history of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Health history of woodrow Wilson, history, Ike Eisenhower, Ike's medican history, Ike's reluctance to run for office, Ike's reluctance to run for reelection in 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Eisenhower's heart attack, President Ike Eisenhower, Presidential history, US history, Vice President Richard Nixon, VP Richard M. Nixon, White House history, WWII history
2 Comments
Ike and Mamie’s First House
Mamie Doud was only nineteen when she married Second Lt. Dwight D. Eisenhower, recently graduated from West Point. The Eisenhower Bride and Groom While Mama and Papa Doud adored Ike, and would consider him their “son” for the rest of … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tagged "Crusade in Europe", American history, Dwight D. Eisenhowere, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady History, FIrst Lady Mamie Eisenhower, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Eisenhower, General Ike, history, Ike as NATO chief, Ike Eisenhower, Ike's Gettysburg farm, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Mrs. General Eisenhower, Mrs. Ike, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential history, The Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg, the family life of Ike and Mamie, US history, White House history
5 Comments