When Dwight Eisenhower decided to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 1952, obstacles loomed: His record as the hero of World War II might not translate well to a political ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...

I worried, almost from the beginning of my research into the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, that something did not quite add up with Stephen Ambrose’s famous biography of the former president. I say ...

John Rubinstein’s first encounter with 34th U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was not the one-man play that he performs around the country. “I met him in the White House when I was 8 or 9 years ...

It was the first presidential election I remember: 1952, Eisenhower vs. Stevenson. I was 7 and a student in Mrs. Collins’ third-grade class at Corona del Mar Elementary School — a leafy, secreted ...