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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
Eisenhower National Historic SiteGeneral Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill
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Eisenhower National Historic Site
History & Culture

THE LIFE OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Eisenhower chronologies, quotes, and Top 5 lists (admired and disliked contemporaries, accomplishments and failures). more...

EISENHOWER AT GETTYSBURG
President Eisenhower bought his Gettysburg home in 1950, but his association with the town and battlefield actually began back in the spring of 1915 during his West Point days. more...
West Point cadet Eisenhower (far left) on guard duty  

Did You Know?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower would have been a sailor if born a year later. He applied to the Naval Academy in 1911, but did not meet the age requirements – he was too old. He was accepted to his second choice, the US Military Academy at West Point.

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