WIGHT D. EISENHOWER accepted a grave challenge when he returned from Europe in 1952 openly to seek the Republican presidential nomination. The greatest war in history had come to an end only seven ...

In the 1,027 pages of the 4 lb. 4 oz. tome sent to Capitol Hill this week lay one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower Administration: a budget offering a small surplus (est. $70 million) for ...

President Dwight Eisenhower was the most fiscally conservative president of the past ninety years, yet he also expanded the scope and power of the state to fight and win the Cold War. Among the most ...

In the month since “Engine Charlie” Wilson’s defense budget had been sent to Congress, the Eisenhower Administration had grown steadily more nervous over the violence of the opposition to the proposed ...

The presidential appointment schedules for the Eisenhower administration (1953-1961) offer an hour-by-hour brief, concise, and sometimes unintentionally humorous outline of their time. Housed in the ...

In President Dwight D. Eisenhower's famous 1961 speech about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he also cautioned Americans about the growing power of a "scientific, technological elite." ...

Almost 60 years ago, the United States government changed the design of its flag for the last time, adding a 49th and then a 50th star for Alaska and Hawaii. The final design the Eisenhower ...