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Triumphal parades and the cheers of millions of his countrymen welcomed the
hero home in 1945. With the nation at peace and the end of a three-year tour as
Army chief of staff in 1948, his official career, so it seemed, was at a close.
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He donned academic robes
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military uniform for the
first time in 47 years. But
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President Truman asked him to take command of the ’
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military forces. Here, on NATO maneuvers in Germany
in 1951, he hears of the firing of Gen. Douglas Mac- '
Arthur, a development in the growing public disaf
fection with the Korean war which was to influence
his own future.
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In a career almost too true to the American tradition to be true, Dwight David 1
Eisenhower, born at Dennison, Tex., Oct. 14, 1890, rose from modest beginnings
to the highest offices and honors his nation could bestow. The family later
moved to Abilene, Kan. In this 1902 family photo, the future president is at
extreme left.. Others, standing at back left to right, are brothers Edgar, Earl.
Arthur and Roy; front, father David, brother Milton and mother Ida.
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On July 1, 1916. the young Army officer married
Mamie Geneva Doud of Denver, Colo.
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The military hero came home again in 1952, this time to seek the presidency.
Swept into office on a wave of popular enthusiam, he scored an even larger victory
four years later.
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Leaving the White House in 1961, the Eisenhowers settled at their
Gettysburg, Pa., farm. Retirement was marked by frequent golfing
vacations in California and Georgia, memoir writing and occasional
forays into the political arena.
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the Tunisian front in 1943.
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elder statesman. Here he discusses Viet Nam with President Johnson
at a 1965 White House meeting. Retirement had not ended a career
of service to the nation.
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In 1911, he entered the United States Military Aca
demy at West Point, beginning a military career
which was to span five decades.
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D-Day Plus Nine. On June 15, the Supreme Com
mander cruised off the coast of Normandy where
Allied forces had stormed ashore nine days earlier,
launching the long-awaited assault on Festung Europa.
Britain's Gen. Bernard Montgomery came aboard to
confer. At left is British Adm. Bertram Ramsay.
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Illness marked both Eisenhower terms in the White
House. The nation, stunned when he suffered a heart
attack in 1955, took a later operation more calmly.