Today, in class, we talked about our President blogs.
Dwight Eisenhower was a famous WWII General. He decided to join the Republican Party after WWII. This all but guaranteed him a win in the 1953 election. Richard Nixon was his Vice-President. Eisenhower was diagnosed with Chrohn's Disease and had a minor stroke during his presidency. He was also the guy that started the interstate highways.
Dwight Eisenhower was dominated by the Cold War Containment policy. He also used the CIA to do covert-ops to disrupt communist governments abroad. He ended the Korean conflict as promised in his 1952 coampaign. He created defensive alliances with South Korea and Tawain.
He also increased US involvement in Southeast Asia (Vietnam). He develeped ideas that the nuclear weapons would be moreso deterrance weapons. NASA was also began after the Soviets launched Sputnik, a satellite. Eisenhower was known for never spending more than the country took in, as he kept a very balanced budget. Being a Republican, he believed in laissez-faire. He deported around One million immigrants (most Mexicans) for the same reason :).
He was the first president to sent troops to a school to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
JFK served in WWII. A big problem in his campaign was that he was Catholic. He was the second youngest president to eva live. He was assassinated in 1963. He vowed to get someone on the moon by the end of the decade, which happened (after he died).
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