Ugh another blog due this sunday, but really it's due Sunday May 15th. Don't forget about it. Now we're talking about our president blog that we did a long time ago. I think I had JFK.
We're talking about Eisenhower -
- Famous WW2 General.
- Decided to join the Republican Party after WW2.
- Won presidential election in 1953.
- Richard Nixon was his Vice President.
- Diagnosed with Chrohn's disease and had a minor stroke as a President.
- Ended Korean War in his 1952 election campaign.
- Signed Civil Right's Bill
- Set up NASA.
- He didn't continue New Deal Project.
- Oldest man to be elected President (I think)
- Interstate Highway System in our country.
- Increased US involvement in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) - US Advisors sent.
- Developed idea that nuclear weapons would be defensive weapons (deferrence)
- US spy plane (U-2) was shot down over USSR. (Embarrassment to Eisenhower)
- Allowed McCarthy to do his thing but privately did not approve.
- Eisenhower Doctrine.
- Believed in laissez-faire.
- Sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to help in the desegrefation of all public schools in 1954 - Brown case.
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