#dwight d eisenhower

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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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[eltristan]

(if you get it you get it) 🦆

[osilentnightowl]

America in 1956 be like: a second term has hit the Eisenhower

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Fariña, Nacho Carretero.

[crazygirl58]

why did she pose like that ... gay ass kim deal

[msexcelfractal]

President Eisenhower was the monster who inaugurated the CIA. Project MKULTRA began on his watch. He authorized the CIA to conduct coups and enact brutal repression in foreign countries in order to maintain US corporate control of their industry - including in Korea and Guatemala. Here he's pictured with his vice president, Richard Nixon.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mary Elaine LeBey : Sign of the Day... June 6th is eternally D-Day... and this beautiful tribute "sign" was created and shared today in 2015, right there on the beach at Normandy... and I love it ... Dunno who took it, but it was shared by the US Embassy in France.

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“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely.

But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.” ― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

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“The road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph. They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war. For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home. Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Eisenhower biography wrapped up:

Wrapped up the next of the Presidential biographies and the one I was looking forward to reading most as books like it are fewer and further between than one might think. Eisenhower the man was both the architect of American victory over Nazi Germany on the battlefield, and the second Cold War President whose legacy is at best deeply and profoundly mixed. The President and the General are often treated as vastly different men when they were the same man and the reputation of the former is owed to the legacy of the latter.

The backlash these days where it's unfashionable to admit that the Axis started terror-bombing and had no room to complain when they goaded people with far greater power in than they had and that there was no line where Brits and Russians were going to say Germans deserved less suffering and had more valuable lives than their own people is only matched by a noisy campaign of people somewhat overly enthusiastic for all the wrong reasons about the Axis-Soviet War and keen to downplay that Eisenhower's contribution to WWII and that of the United States was a keen one.

While Stalin and his cronies were busy dictating how much Soviet aid to send to Nazi Germany to end-run the Soviet blockade, Eisenhower was beginning military plans to face Nazi Germany directly. Eisenhower led the US Army to victory and was the ultimate supreme commander of the Western Allies, a position innately political and one that shaped his approach as a Cold War President.

As a man who'd seen a great deal of military and political affairs he was by far the least romantic and the most cynical President about the armed forces of the entire postwar era, from good and cogent experiences. His Cold War activities include successes, like the ending of the Korean War and the consolidation of NATO, and failures that left long and ugly histories like an aborted attempt to instill stability in Lebanon, the farcical Baghdad Pact, the putsch that put the kibosh on Doctor Mossadeqh, and overflying the USSR in a manner that pissed it off enough to have the plane shot down.

On the whole he must qualify as one of the greatest Americans of the 20th Century, even when the people you'd think would lean most solidly into his legacy these days spend time bellowing PUNCH ALL NAZIs and those POOR WIDDLE DRESDENERS AND JAPANESE as if you can reconcile these viewpoints.

10/10.

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Scrumptious little butt muffin who fucked up America’s ability to have sustainable transportation <3

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"It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow." Roy T. Bennett

"A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short." André Maurois

"Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed." Bhagavad Gita

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." William James

"Study the past if you would divine the future." Confucius

"Be as you wish to seem." Socrates

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." Dwight D Eisenhower

"Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakeable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfilment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer." Eckhart Tolle

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation." Thich Nhat Hanh

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• President Harry Truman | media and editorial archive

The Mossadegh Project

[coloradomartini]

What’s in a name: Colorado's Eisenhower Highway, Tunnel and Park

Have you ever noticed that many Colorado infrastructures are named after President and First Lady Eisenhower? Why? #Colorado #Eisenhower #history #president

Have you ever noticed that many Colorado infrastructures are named after President and First Lady Eisenhower? Why? Eisenhower Highway In the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973, Congress named a transcontinental highway after Dwight D. Eisenhower, to commemorate the route of the extraordinary U.S. Army’s 1919 convoy. Since many of today’s highways were not in existence in 1919 (as can be seen in…

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We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address

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Just added to Etsy

~ "At Ease: Stories I Tell to My Friends" by Dwight D. Eisenhower (1967) First Edition