Eisenhower excelled at sports and played football his first two years at West Point. After suffering a knee injury, he dedicated himself to his studies as a cadet. His classmates regarded him as a natural leader who had a knack of saying the right thing to gain others' cooperation and his good nature inspired trust.

Upon graduation from West Point, he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. There he met Mamie Doud in October of 1915. After a whirlwind courtship they were married on July 1, 1916. They had two children, the first of whom died of scarlet fever in infancy.

While at Fort Sam Houston, Eisenhower was promoted several times. He became First Lieutenant on July 1, 1916; Captain on May 15, 1917; Major (temporary) on June 17, 1918; and Lieutenant Colonel (temporary) on October 14, 1918. He reverted to the permanent rank of Captain on June 30, 1920 and was then promoted to Major on July 2, 1920

After his Presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower retired to his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania until his death on March 28, 1969

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers designated the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways as one of the "Seven Wonders of the United States." (Other wonders include the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, and the Panama Canal). The system has often been called the "greatest public works project in history". It not only linked the nation, but it boosted productivity and helped sustain a more than tenfold increase in the gross national product since the start of the program in 1956.

Eisenhower valued peace and sought it throughout his presidency. With the USSR he proposed the Open Skies Program to allow the US and Russia to exchange blueprints of each other's military establishments and "provide within our countries facilities or aerial photography to the other country". He developed an "Atoms for Peace" program where nations would pool their atomic information for peaceful purposes, an initiative that led to the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1957.

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