Cardiovascular Disease Deaths in Washington, D.C. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, William Howard Taft, Elbridge Gerry, Andrea Dworkin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, William Howard Taft, Elbridge Gerry, Andrea Dworkin, Richard Holbrooke, Tim Russert, Felix Frankfurter, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Gillis William Long, Fred M. Vinson, Edmund Muskie, John Chafee, Robert Drinan, Jeane Dixon, Francis Cherry, Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr., Cassius C. Dowell, John W. Douglas, Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr.. Excerpt: Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( -z n-how- r; October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961, and the last to be born in the 19th century. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. A Republican, Eisenhower entered the 1952 presidential race to counter the non-interventionism of Sen. Robert A. Taft, and to crusade against "Communism, Korea and corruption." He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition holding the White House. As President, Eisenhower concluded negotiations with China to end the Korean War. His New Look, a policy of nuclear deterrence, gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for the other military forces to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits at the same time. He began NASA to compete against the Soviet Union in the space race. Near the end of his term, the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by the U-2 incident and was planning the Bay of Pigs Invasion. On the domestic front, he covertly helped remove Joseph McCarthy from power but otherwise left most political actions to his Vi...