Ike and Iran

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By Dr. Daun van Ee Dwight Eisenhower had an expansive view of what he called “psychological warfare.” It was more than mere propaganda. Psywar could include anything “from the singing of a beautiful hymn up to the most extraordinary kind of physical sabotage”—what today we might call covert operations (letter to J.F. Dulles, Oct. 24,

Gettysburg Figured Into the Presidential Campaign of 1956 in a Surprising Way

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Convalescing in Gettysburg following a serious heart attack suffered while vacationing in Denver, Colorado in September 1955, Dwight Eisenhower gradually returned to the business of governing. By Thanksgiving he was meeting periodically with key aides in his recently remodeled Gettysburg home or his public office at the post office on Baltimore Street and signing legislation

Documenting Nuremberg

Ike at Ohrdruf Work Camp

Midway through the recently released film “Nuremberg,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower is shown walking through a newly liberated Nazi work camp. Many other famous historical figures also appear throughout the movie, but, unlike them, no actor plays the Allied Supreme Commander. He appears in documentary film footage originally shown, with great effect, during the eighth

Eisenhower and the “Forgotten War”

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This year, 2025, marks the 75th anniversary of the Korean conflict. When communist North Korean forces invaded their southern neighbor on June 25, 1950, Dwight D. Eisenhower was serving as president of Columbia University, following a spectacular career in World War II and later as the Army’s Chief of Staff. Although totally outside of the

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