Dwight D. Eisenhower

There were basically two reasons Eisenhower did not plunge on into Germany when his forces first reached the German border in September, 1944. One was that Eisenhower was being very cautious and conservative. He was not a brilliant battlefield general - he got and kept his job because he was an agreeable person who was able to get the Americans and British and Canadians to all pull together. Coalition warfare is traditionally very difficult and the affable Eisenhower was just the man for the job. Eisenhower wanted all his forces closed up to the Rhine before pushing on into the German interior. He worried over the possibility of offensives erupting from any enclaves of Germans left west of the Rhine.

But the main reason was logistics. There were not enough supplies on hand, of all kinds, but particularly ammunition and POL (petroleum, oil and lubricants). It took upward of a hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per day to keep a single armored division moving. The Allies as yet had no real port on the European mainland. The supply crisis could not be eased until the Allies had Antwerp and had its port facilities back in operation. Until that time practically all supplies had to come ashore over the invasion beaches, and be moved forward by truck. The French railroad system was wrecked by pre-invasion bombing. All trucks were taken from whatever unit they were assigned to and used to move supplies forward, but it was not enough. These trucks themselves used a lot of gasoline and were soon wearing out. There was only enough supplies for one big push, and Eisenhower elected to allow Montgomery to try his Operation Market-Garden, an effort to seize major bridges intact over the Maas, Waal and Rhine Rivers in Holland, which would put the Allies north of, outflanking, the German West Wall defensive belt and on the short road to Berlin. Everybody else had to be halted so Montgomery could have all the available supplies to try this plan, which unfortunately, failed. Another aspect of this episode is that while Montgomery was busy promoting Market-Garden, which would put British forces into position to drive to Berlin and "win the war", he was not taking Antwerp. Antwerp was in Montgomery's area, and he did not get around to taking the city until after Market-Garden was done. Antwerp is seventy miles from the sea up the estuary of the Scheldt River, and Montgomery did not get around to clearing the banks of the Scheldt of Germans with their cannons until November, so that supply ships could actually reach Antwerp.

He ordered Army troops in to insure integration of the high school

President Eisenhower did not agree with the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs Board of Education that educational institutions in the South were unequal and segregation hurt students who did not get an "equal" education. He felt the decision was a mistake. But, as President he was sworn to uphold the law and enforce the law. Eisenhower was a constitutionalist and to him, the Court's ruling had the force of law. Governor Faubus of Arkansas was defying the Court's order so Eisenhower took over command of the National Guard and ordered troops to enforce the integration of Central High School.

Yes former President D. Eisenhower was an American negro, and his grandmother looked like Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas twin sister. The picture was published in President Eisenhower's auto-biography, "At Ease!

(R.C. Russell, PhD)

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The term "rollback" is the strategy of forcing changes in major policies of the state, most often by replacing the state's current regime, as opposed to simply containing the state ("containment"), or cooperating to work with the state ("détente"). During the Cold War, Eisenhower initially promoted rollback in Eastern Europe and Asia, but decided that containment was ultimately safer than rollback, considering the Soviet nuclear confrontation that was at hand. Eisenhower relied on covert CIA actions to undercut small, unfavorable governments and used economic and military foreign aid to governments supporting his position.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's used federal troops to enforce integration in Little Rock, Arkansas

No, Ruby Bridges was the first. She was 7 year old girl.

Eisenhower promised he would go to Korea to arrange a cease-fire.

He went to Korea soon after he was elected and on July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed in Korea freezing the status quo.

-mainly because of appeasement

-neither Britain nor France wanted to go to war

-everything was done to prevent any repetition of the first world war

-invasion of Czechoslovakia made it very clear that Hitler was a real threat (1938)

-people thought that once Hitler got what he had wanted (e.g. Sudetenland) he would not bother about more

1) When President Eisenhower called for termination of the Indians due to their annual income. About 64 tribes were terminated between 1954 and 1960.

Eisenhower was a general in World War II and was selected to lead the D-day invasion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Modern Republicanism was started by Dwight D. Eisenhower and his administration. The concept of Modern Republicanism is being somewhat liberal in Fiscal and Domestic affairs, while remaining conservative in global affairs.

Modern Republicanism calls for lower taxes, smaller government and more state power in issues.There have only been three Presidents who have been Modern Republicans and who have practiced Modern Republicanism. They were: Ike Eisenhower, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

He was forced to defend the law of land after seeing the defiance of Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus.

If they're from circulation, they're cupronickel rather than silver and are only worth face value.

If they're in mint sets, they'd be worth a bit more if made from the same clad stock as circulation coins. Eisenhower dollars were also struck in silver-clad composition and are worth to retail in that case.

Assuming the coin is circulated and has no mintmark, the 1925 Peace dollar is a high mintage common date, retail values are $30.00-$37.00 depending on the grade of the coin.

The Korean War, and small escalation of what would later become the Vietnam War under JFK and Lyndon Johnson.

Yes he did it says so on wikipedia.

None of the Bicentennial coins (1776-1976) regardless of denomination or mintmark struck for general circulation have any silver or are worth more than face value. Only proof and uncirculated collectors coins sold from the Mint are worth more.

Dwight Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915.

with no mint mark; 7$ in very fine condition, 9$ in extremely fine condition, 12$ in low grade uncirculated condition, in uncirculated condition 20$, in high grade uncirculated condition, 25$, and if proof, 250$.

with D mint mark; all same, no proofs

with S mint mark; 8$ in very fine condition, 10$ in extremely fine condition, 50$ in low grade uncirculated condition, 70$ in uncirculated condition, 100$ in high grade uncirculated condition no proofs

Yes.

He was a republican in his first term and he was a democratic in his second term.

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Eisenhower was the Republican Party's candidate in both 1952 and 1956. Republican Richard Nixon was his Vice-Presidential candidate.

Democrat Adlai Stevenson lost to Eisenhower in both elections.

He believed in the Government of Democracy, but was in the Republican Party.

He pushed for improvements in science education. (I'm verry sorry you waited sooo long)