Dwight D Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the third son of David and Ida Stover Eisenhower. He was born in 1890 in Denison, Texas, and named David Dwight Eisenhower, although he was known as Dwight David by many. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where Eisenhower was brought up. He was the third of seven sons. He and his older brothers were all called "Ike" by their family, Eisenhower was known as "Little Ike". In his high school years, he was known to excel in sports due to his active nature. After he graduated, Eisenhower wanted to attend college, but his family could not afford the tuition. Dwight and his brother planned to switch off between work and college every year in order to pay for each other's tuition and allow them to both complete their education. In 1910, Eisenhower found that he could get a free college education at United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. The prerequisite for obtaining such involved passing a difficult exam. While Eisenhower had no original plans to be a soldier, he still prepared well for the competitive West Point entrance exam and won an appointment to the school in 1911.Unknown to him at the time, Eisenhower would lat
In 1956, Eisenhower ran and won again in the presidential election. During his second term, he used federal troops to enforce school desegregation in the Little Rock Central High School incident. That same year he signed a Civil Rights Act. He signed yet another in 1960. The President was a strong believer in the Civil Rights movement throughout his term, writing once in a letter, "There must be no second class citizens in this country." Eisenhower was also in office when U.S. entered the space age with its first successful launching of a satellite into orbit. 4. Broadwater, Jeff. Eisenhower and the Anti-Communist Crusade. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
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