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Dwight D. Eisenhower - White House Historical Association. Bringing to the presidency his vast experience as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight Eisenhower oversaw the growth of postwar prosperity.
Born in Texas and raised in Kansas, Dwight D. Eisenhower was one of America's greatest military commanders and the thirty-fourth President of the United States. Inspired by the example of a friend who was going to the U.S. Naval Academy, Eisenhower won an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
The 34th U.S. president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. He is shown here in 1956, at the age of 66. (more) Critics contended that there were frequent disparities between the administration’s words and its deeds in the field of foreign relations.
