He did not say the words, "get it all on record now" because "down the track of history some b****rd will get up and say that this never happened." ...
Seventy years ago there was a two-term U.S. president who battled isolationism and fascism, expanded the Social Security and unemployment programs, signed a Civil Rights Act and famously spoke against ...
On April 12, 1945, Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton entered Ohrdruf, a subcamp in the Buchenwald concentration camp system. (Eisenhower at Ohrdruf, courtesy of ushmm.org) Eisenhower then cabled ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Michel Paradis talked about his book, "The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day and the Birth of the American Superpower," and the role of ...
Just prior to leading Allied troops in an invasion of North Africa in 1942, General Dwight Eisenhower made an astute observation about the nature of leadership. He wrote, "I firmly determined that my ...
President Eisenhower and Nikita Krushchev. Courtesy: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library As the dust settled after the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as competing ...
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 soldiers from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada fought in Normandy, France for what would be known as the D-Day invasion. Eighty years ...
Arrington's departure came after he resisted taking an original Eisenhower sword out of the library's collection to give to ...
A⁠⁠merica's Interstate Highway System carries the lifeblood of the world's largest economy, essential to the daily lives of almost every citizen today. It’s officially called the Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
The U.S. Army and the U.S. people talked things over last week, finally decided they had better trust each other. ”The Patton affair” (see p. 69) became a test for the democratic maturity of both. On ...