Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States.
During World War
II, he was the Commanding General of of the US Forces in the European Theater. D wight Eisenhower was undoubtedly one of America's greatest military commanders. DDE was born in Dennison Texas on October 14th 1890. Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West point in the class of 1915, the class the star fell on, because so ma ny of its members became general officers in World War II. He was then stationed in Texas and there is where he met his wife Mamie Doud. During World War I, Eis nhower steadly rose through the ranks, although he never left the US mainland. F ar the World War II, Eisenhower was serving with General Douglas MacArthur in th e Phillipines, and was at that time the Lieutenant Coronel. Eisenhower was broug ht back to the US in 1939 by Army Chief of Staff General George C Marshall. Gene ral Marshall saw that Eisenhower was quickly promoted from Lieutenant Coronel to Major General and had him command Operation Torch which was the Invasion of No rth Africa in 1942, This was followed by the invasion of Sicily and mainland Ita ly in 1943, and the Invasion of France in 1944. He was in charge of Operation Ov erlord, the Operation which resulted in the invasion of Normandy on June 6th 194 4,the day that we know as D-Day. Dwight D Eisenhower was a great political gener al, what is exactly what he as called for to keep the Alliance together during W orld War II. Eisenhower received a hero's welcome when he returned to the US aft er the war in 1945. He then served as the Army Chief of Staff before leaving the service in 1948 to become president of Columbia University. In 1950, Eisenhower returned to military service when President Harry Truman asked him to become th e NATO Supreme Commander which was a newly created position. In 1952 Eisenhowe s tepped down from his NATO position and ran for president. In the November 1952 e lection he won the first of his two presidential terms in a landslide victory. H e continued many of the policies of the New Deal and FDR and Harry Truman, even though he was a Republican. On Civil rights in 1957, there was the Little Rock S chool Crisis. The Governor of Arkansas didn't want to let African-american child ren enter the all white schools. Eisenhower sent Federal troops to make sure tha t those students got to have their education there at the Central High School in Little Rock. Eisenhower's foreign policy achievements include the Armstice that ended the Korean War, a ramping up of the Cold War where he increased surveilla nce against the communism. DDW's lasting visible legacy interesting enough came in infrastructure. He was the father of the interstate highway system. He also c reated NASA. Eisenhower was never known as a great public speaker but many peopl e believed that his final speech as president was his greatest one. In that spee ch he expressed his concern about big business and the military establishment ex erting too much influence on America's everyday life. Those concerns remain with us to this day. After his presidency, Eisenhower retired to a farmhouse in Gett ysburg, Pennsylvania with his wife in 1961. He died on March 28 1969.