Dwight D. Eisenhower News
Being Barbara Walters in a Man's World
Act 2: ABC's Barbara Walters describes her struggle as a woman to become a television personality.
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D-Day Anniversary Events Around US and Abroad
part in laying wreaths along the Memorial's Freedom Wall. Participants also include Susan Eisenhower , granddaughter of Gen. Dwight D . Eisenhower , and Elliot "Toby" Roosevelt III, great-grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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AP WAS THERE: Hitler's Atlantic Wall Under Assault
Associated Press implemented coverage plans that had been drawn up over many months of consultation with General Dwight D . Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. On the beaches and in the air, more than a dozen correspondents and six
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Reagan Set the Tone for D-Day Observances
pilgrimage to the site, not even Dwight Eisenhower , who had been the supreme allied ..... the key D-Day anniversaries. DWIGHT EISENHOWER , 10th anniversary, 1954 Issued ..... regret, but not for despair." Eisenhower did go to Normandy after his
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AP WAS THERE, 1944: Allies Win Footholds in France
June 6, 1944. From Gen. Dwight D . Eisenhower 's London headquarters, Wes ..... grand assault which Gen. Dwight D . Eisenhower called a crusade in which ..... Under the command of Gen. Dwight D . Eisenhower , Allied naval forces supported
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D-Day Narrative Started Early, and Still Evolves
the Command of Gen. Eisenhower , Allied naval forces ..... northern coast of France." Ike , as the troops called their commanding Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower , later issued a statement ..... Nazi propaganda films. Eisenhower assigned him to head
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D-Day Vets Reflect, Keeping Fading Memory Alive
world." ——— After months of planning and waiting for the right conditions, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower gave the green light to "Operation Overlord." The plan was to land 133,000 American, British and Canadian troops
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Eisenhower Center to Mark D-Day Anniversary
Staff members at the Eisenhower Presidential Library ..... War II. President Dwight D . Eisenhower was the supreme Allied ..... than a year later. Eisenhower also served as the ..... Weissenbach, director of the Eisenhower library, said Friday
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Obama Pushes for New Infrastructure Funding
connecting east to west even while he was struggling mightily to hold together north and south. It was a Republican Dwight Eisenhower . Who built the interstate highway system. It was Ronald Reagan who said that rebuilding our infrastructure is an
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What to Expect When Pope Francis and President Obama Meet
president to meet with a sitting pope in 1919, but the audiences only became a regular thing with President Dwight D . Eisenhower . But after diplomatic relations were established in 1984, the visits became a bit more formal. “Before there
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John Dingell's Congress: A Lot Has Changed Since 1955
Congress 84 th 113 th House majority party Democrats Republicans Cost of a gallon of milk 92 cents $3.65 President Dwight . D . Eisenhower Barack Obama Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, D-Texas John Boehner, R- Ohio Number of U.S. states 48
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Historic Eisenhower Tree at Augusta Falls Victim to Ice Storm
a little bit easier. The Eisenhower Tree, an enormous loblolly ..... annoyed golfers ranging from President Eisenhower to Tiger Woods, was cut ..... storm. The tree, known as Ike 's tree, was removed because ..... Sunday. "The loss of the Eisenhower Tree is difficult news to
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Augusta removes Eisenhower Tree
ice storm. The Eisenhower Tree -- named in honor of President Dwight Eisenhower -- was located ..... The loss of the Eisenhower Tree is difficult ..... planted behind Ike 's Tree also ..... to the storm. Eisenhower , an Augusta National
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Fight Over Presidential Appointment Power Heads To Supreme Court
functioning government," says Alicia Bannon, co-author of the report. "Several notable public officials from Dwight Eisenhower , to Thurgood Marshall, to Alan Greenspan were given recess appointments. This debate goes to whether the court
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Presidential Handshakes Can Change History or Change Nothing at All
visit to the United States. Instead, he came at the invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. President Eisenhower famously snubbed Castro on his visit to the U.S., but the new Cuban leader did meet with the next highest ranking
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The Soldiers Who Saved Europe's Art From Hitler
military authority. With only a list of monuments worthy of protection and an order from Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D . Eisenhower , he travelled through northern France trying to save what was left to save. The key was improvisation. Rorimer
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Missing Nelson Mandela
supported the white regime in the 1950s. The ANC sought America's support from the administration of President Dwight D . Eisenhower but none was to be had. This was true with anti-colonial forces all across the continent of Africa and around
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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, December 5, 2013
Illinois, and it draws on the legacies of three Republican presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D . Eisenhower . LINK BUDGET Bloomberg's Heidi Przybyla & Derek Wallbank: " Budget Negotiators Seeking to Avoid Shutdown Near
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JFK Assassination: LBJ, Nixon, Ike Comment in 1963
hatred that drives men to such terrible deeds." Dwight D . Eisenhower The president that preceded Kennedy in the White House ..... to reporters in New York City. The 73-year-old Eisenhower blamed a "psychopathic" action for taking the president's
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Obama Discusses Key Efforts to Strengthen the American Economy
Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid entitlement programs. Is its smallest level in my lifetime. Price since Dwight Eisenhower . We are not lavishly spending on a whole bunch of social programs out there. And in many ways a lot of these programs
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If Kennedy Lived: Imagining a Different Fate for JFK (and Johnson) 50 Years Later
look back in you'll all these images from struck. By how powerful. An image this was of him of the oldest the president Eisenhower . And a fairly housewife free First Lady replaced by this vigor and he 31 year old firstly. That's sheer. Presence
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President Obama Lays Wreath, Delivers Remarks on Veterans Day
commemorated year after year and in the thirties and became a national holiday. And then in 1954. believe that president Eisenhower . Change the name of the day armistice day to veterans commemorate the service of all of America's service members
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Charlie Crist and 21 Most-Famous Political Party Switchers of All Time
California in 1966, was fiercely anti-Communist. He supported presidential candidates who shared this view, such as Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. Reagan even challenged incumbent President Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican primary. Though
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GMA LIVE (10.22.13)
go and nothing like. And in the end but that allowed us OK well we're glad that of this is how this process. President Eisenhower McCarthy who apparently like the tomatoes and tasteless he. here. Yeah definitely if you wanted to do were behind
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President Kennedy: A Life in Pictures
the telephone talking to John Glenn right after the astronaut successful space flight. With a predecessor former president Eisenhower this picture taken a year ago. Most of all happiness showed when he was with his daughter Caroline's. With
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Who's Winning in the Shutdown? No One, Says Republican Hoping for Compromise
whatever it takes I think that the president should come to the negotiating table and presidents in the pass from Dwight Eisenhower at least four way. Have come to the negotiating table on the issue of some people question the October 17 deadline
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'This Week' Exclusive: Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif
to get a single gram of uranium that we need for the reactor. Not accidentally, in fact intentionally built by president eisenhower under the action for peace program. Not only the united states not providing the fuel for that reactor itself
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'This Week' Transcript: Former President Bill Clinton; Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif
for the Tehran research reactor, which was accidentally -- not accidentally, in fact intentionally built by President Eisenhower under the Atoms for Peace program. But not only the United States is not providing the fuel for that reactor that
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'This Week' Powerhouse Roundtable
actually wrong now that want a second. The fact is since Dwight Eisenhower . We have added things to the debt ceiling. Gramm ..... Should we tested. Tonight I think you know from from Eisenhower through Reagan was a pretty clear sense to get to the
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Recess Roar? Immigration's Quieter-Than-Expected August
LONGEST-SERVING BUTLER: FROM EISENHOWER TO OBAMA. Lee Daniels' new ..... worked for every president since Dwight Eisenhower . William Hamilton, who recently ..... you can't wait here. Mrs. Eisenhower 's coming through.'" Hamilton
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This Week in History
government intervention on big business monopolies. Aug. 21 1959: Hawaii Becomes 50th State On this day in 1959, President Eisenhower signed a proclamation that admitted Hawaii to the Union as the 50th state. American traders and missionaries greatly
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Movie Review: Forest Whitaker a Witness to History in 'The Butler'
truths - standing in the Oval Office as presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan struggle with race-related issues, from ..... to play the presidents. We get Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower , Liev Schreiber as Lyndon Johnson, John Cusack as
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This Week in History
Although NASA became a driving force in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower proceeded with caution when creating the new agency. Eisenhower specified that NASA's research would focus on
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House Hunters - In Search Of Support For Immigration Reform (The Note)
At historic moments in the television age, past American presidents turned to the Oval Office as their stage. Dwight D . Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy interrupted prime-time shows to tell Americans from the Oval Office why they had ordered