Dwight Eisenhower

<p>As president, Dwight D. Eisenhower took a moderate position on many issues, believing that “good judgment seeks balance and progress.”</p>

This agreement was signed by the French government and the anti-colonialist, socialist Viet Minh guerilla force. It divided Vietnam into two halves at the 17th parallel, with the northern half administered by the Viet Minh and the southern half under the French, although the two sections were meant…

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Eisenhower dreamed of serving under Patton, but history reversed their roles. Their stormy association dramatically shaped the Allied assault on the Third Reich.</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The U-2, Cuba, and the CIA</span> </span></p>

<p>Only those of us who were there know what Ike was really saying when the famous photograph was taken.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A soldier who landed in the second wave on Omaha Beach assesses the broadest implications of what he and his comrades achieved there.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">More than a million children participated in the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine trials of 1954, the largest public-health experiment in American history.</span></p>

<p>The author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts."</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.americanheritage.com/content/april-1969">April 1969 issue</a> was typical of classic issues of <em>American Heritage</em>, with dramatic and substantive essays on George Washington, Ike and Patton, the Transcontinental Railroad, the "ship that wouldn't die," and many other fascinating subjects from our nation's past</p>

<p>Though no scandals touched Eisenhower personally, the media showed occasional interest in the number of gifts he received.</p>

<p>In five appointments to the Supreme Court, Eisenhower added conservatives, moderates, and a liberal, believing the president and courts should represent all the American people.</p>

On January 17, 1961, in this farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a "military-industrial complex."