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Davis Enterprise
February 21, 2018
I did find an Ezra Taft Benson, the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and the Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower administration, but that's as close as I came. Ezra Beeman was born in Woodland as so many Davisites were in the days of long ago, and, according to Ternus-Bellamy,ÃÂ ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
February 21, 2018
In the general election, which pitted Kennedy against Richard Nixon, Graham wrote that he felt Nixon's experience in the Eisenhower administration made him a better-qualified candidate. Graham was also a friend of the Nixon family. But Graham never declared himself. According to Martin, Graham wroteÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy Research Institute
February 20, 2018
Thus, the extensive and expensive Interstate Highway System was pushed forward by the Eisenhower administration in part in order to help speed the military response to any major war as well as to further economic integration. Moreover, support for Civil Rights, which included the Civil Rights Acts of 1957ÃÂ ...
Robb Report
February 19, 2018
The call sign was established in 1953, during the Eisenhower administration and following an incident in which an Eastern Airlines commercial airliner accidentally entered the same air space as the president's Lockhead Constellation. The airliner was flight 8610, and the president's plane was flying underÃÂ ...
HuffPost
February 12, 2018
Congress banned tolling on interstate highways in 1956 when it created the national highway system during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Lawmakers have steadily chipped away at the restrictions since then, and tolls on interstates are now allowed in certain states in priority lanes. The 2015ÃÂ ...
kplr11.com
February 12, 2018
"Ford was on the committee that drafted the legislation that gave birth to NASA in the Eisenhower administration," says Holloway. "Ford served for 25 years in Congress and then became president at a time when Apollo was shutting down and NASA transitioning to the space shuttle program. So he had theÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 12, 2018
FDR originally named the property "Shangri-La," a name it kept until the Eisenhower administration, who named it Camp David after his grandson. The compound has expanded over the years, with new cabins being built and even a pool. It has also been the site of diplomatic events like the Camp DavidÃÂ ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
February 8, 2018
Such integration actually lowers the sharp distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons—a distinction that has existed since the Eisenhower Administration. Not only is this a dangerous policy that invites use of nuclear weapons, it is also unnecessary: The United States has massive superiority inÃÂ ...
Wireless Week
January 29, 2018
White House national security officials recently floated a plan in which the government would pay to build a next-generation 5G network and rent access to wireless carriers, according to a report over the weekend. A memo and presentation prepared by a top National Security Council official — andÃÂ ...
Amarillo.com
January 20, 2018
Board of Education was ruled for the defendant under the Warren Supreme Court administration during the Eisenhower administration. I believe President Eisenhower was the driving force behind the 1957 Civil Rights Act , which advocated that African Americans could vote. I believe it was PrudenceÃÂ ...
The Market Oracle
January 20, 2018
The Eisenhower administration began contemplating the use of nuclear weapons to achieve a quick end to the Korean War. Eisenhower administration also sought to show that it would stop at nothing to bring the war to a close. In mid-May 1953, Ike told the National Security Council that using nukes inÃÂ ...
SmartBrief
January 20, 2018
President John F. Kennedy assumed full responsibility for his role in authorizing at the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. The ill-fated invasion, which failed to overthrow Fidel Castro, was initially planned by the Eisenhower administration. Kennedy did not make excuses. People respect a leader whoÃÂ ...
MediaShift
January 19, 2018
Can a print magazine founded during the height of the Eisenhower administration make it in a digital world? Apparently so. The National Review, founded in the 1950s by conservative William F. Buckley, Jr., attracts more than ten million visits a month to its site. It's close to being a top ten conservativeÃÂ ...
Boston Herald
January 19, 2018
As the judge explained, “DACA grew out of a long agency history of discretionary relief programs,” going back to the Dwight Eisenhower administration and including major initiatives under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Such “programs had become a well-accepted feature of theÃÂ ...
Boulder Daily Camera
January 18, 2018
In addition, during the Eisenhower administration, college loans were interest-free. They could be paid back by teaching in the public school system, with 10 percent of the loan forgiven for each year of teaching. Too bad the current version of the party has strayed so far from its past. Edna Ralston. BoulderÃÂ ...
Cleveland Scene
January 18, 2018
The year was 1956 when Frances and Michael Geraci opened their eponymous Italian restaurant in University Heights. After five years they moved to their current location (2266 Warrensville Center Rd., 216-371-5643), where they have been feeding multiple generations of happy families for more than 60ÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
January 18, 2018
The results of this competitive analysis were distilled into National Security Council memorandum 162/2, one of the core documents guiding U.S. strategy during the Cold War. This project succeeded because it leveraged broad expertise to inform the Eisenhower administration, because it used competitionÃÂ ...
Redlands Daily Facts
December 31, 1999
Racing far above us today and every day for years to come is Vanguard I, the oldest bit of man-made space debris — it's been up there since the Eisenhower administration. That, and a second Vanguard satellite that followed, are testaments to the innovation of a little-remembered Inland Empire firm thatÃÂ ...
PhillyVoice.com
December 31, 1999
For a city that often revels in its reputation as a gritty underdog that can still overachieve – the hoary narrative of Rocky and a hundred other civic tropes – this might be the unlikely team that figuratively climbs the museum steps to its first title since the final month of the Eisenhower administration. [philly.com]ÃÂ ...
Asia Times
December 18, 2017
After Soviet Russia surprised the world with the first successful satellite launch in 1957, the Eisenhower Administration had its “Sputnik moment,” and poured resources into scientific education. This contributed to a golden era of American innovation where the Department of Defense and NASA spurredÃÂ ...
Truthdig
December 17, 2017
One casualty of that is a screening process that all but one president since the Eisenhower administration has utilized prior to publicly announcing its nominations. The result has been a spike in nominees rated as “not qualified” under Trump. The American Bar Association, which traditionally screens theÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
December 16, 2017
The Eisenhower administration barred gays and lesbians from government employment, leading to a purge at the State Department. The 1960s unraveled that dominant morality. A new generation revolted against strictures on sex and the deference accorded to authority figures. The skepticism fueled aÃÂ ...
NPR
December 16, 2017
The - what mystified us all was that the Pentagon Papers ended with matters - with the decision-making process in Vietnam before President Nixon took office, and, therefore, he was talking about the Johnson administration and the Kennedy administration and the Eisenhower administration. That's what theÃÂ ...
The Hindu
December 16, 2017
After the Suez war, Dwight D. Eisenhower issued an ultimatum to Israel to withdraw from the territories it captured during the war. Israel did not have any intention to do so. But, after the Eisenhower administration said aid to Israel would be cut unless it withdrew (and the Soviet Union threatened to launchÃÂ ...
Vox
December 16, 2017
[Washington Post / Arelis Hernandez, Whitney Leaming, and Zoeann Murphy]; During the peak of Cold War nuclear tensions, the Eisenhower administration encouraged families to stock up on foods to sustain them during nuclear winter, including cornflakes, Tang, Campbell's soup, and candy bars.
Satellite Today
December 15, 2017
Historian Roger Launius wrote, “The Eisenhower administration was working behind the scenes to achieve permanent free access to space and to avoid international overflight issues common to aviation. He was concerned … that if the United States was the first nation to orbit a satellite, the Soviet UnionÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 9, 2017
I mean timber and oil. … I think there is no doubt that Alaska is going to become a major oil producing area. I cannot believe it is any accident that this period of tremendous growth, of economic development and utilization of your natural resources, coincides with the period of the Eisenhower administration.
New York Times
December 7, 2017
One of the exceptions was Ogden R. Reid, a former congressman who was the ambassador from 1959 to 1961, at the end of the Eisenhower administration. “I think it's the right decision,” he said. “Not a lot more to say.” The other exception was Edward S. Walker Jr., who was ambassador from 1997 to 1999,ÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
November 24, 2017
... John F. Kennedy was President, its planning by the CIA commenced in March 1959, when the Eisenhower administration was still in power.
Fenton Tri County Times
November 21, 2017
Before his inauguration, John F. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the CIA, developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban ...
Newsweek
November 17, 2017
Since the Eisenhower administration, the ABA Standing Committee has ranked prospective judicial candidates before they are officially ...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
November 5, 2017
It was during Eisenhower's administration that “under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance after a national campaign from the Knights of ...
Barron's
December 31, 1999
... respected academic economist who had previously chaired the Council of Economic Advisors in the Eisenhower administration, Burns would ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
December 31, 1999
... the professional qualifications of potential judicial nominees since the Eisenhower administration, often serving as the most prominent arbiter ...
Elizabethtown News Enterprise
December 31, 1999
In the late 1950s, during the Eisenhower Administration, the President's Council on Youth Physical Fitness was founded to promote healthier ...
Press Herald
September 21, 2017
And our first tale starts with President Dwight Eisenhower's administration trying to figure out what to do about South Vietnam after the defeatedÃÂ ...
BullionVault
September 20, 2017
The Eisenhower administration actually had the same debt ceiling problem we have today. And Congress didn't raise the debt ceiling in time.
Clarksville Now
September 20, 2017
The concept of Sister Cities began in the aftermath of World War II, when the Eisenhower administration promoted diplomacy on aÃÂ ...
The Times
September 19, 2017
The mission only reopened two years ago, as part of a detente brokered by Barack Obama, 54 years after the Eisenhower administrationÃÂ ...
Falls Church News Press
September 19, 2017
... safety has not been seen, the attorney said, since the Eisenhower administration deported Mexican farmworkers under “Operation Wetback.”.
Curbed Philly
September 19, 2017
Dreamt up during the early 20th century and created during the Eisenhower administration, the network was built to connect cities across theÃÂ ...
Progress Index
September 18, 2017
The last time the U.S. government operated at a surplus was during the Eisenhower administration. President Bill Clinton claimed a surplusÃÂ ...
Davie Enterprise Record
September 7, 2017
Eisenhower's administration was a period of relative prosperity. New houses were being built and jobs were plentiful. One thing most peopleÃÂ ...
Southgate News Herald
August 28, 2017
On the other hand, it was the Eisenhower administration that first gave life to the missile gap myth and the president had every opportunity toÃÂ ...
India Today
August 20, 2017
The Eisenhower administration's rhetoric about rolling back the Iron Curtain proved to be empty words. In 1962, the world's most dangerousÃÂ ...
HelloGiggles
August 20, 2017
According to Parker, when “Six Flags Over Texas was being planned during the Eisenhower administration, the founders settled on six themedÃÂ ...
The knoxville focus
August 20, 2017
Yet another obstacle to passage of the legislation was the hostility of the Eisenhower administration to TVA. Congressman Robert E. Jones ofÃÂ ...
ReporterNews.com
August 20, 2017
During the Eisenhower administration, defense spending absorbed more than half the entire federal budget, and a much larger percentage ofÃÂ ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
August 18, 2017
In 1954, during the Eisenhower administration, Assistant Secretary of Labor James Ernest Wilkins became the first black official to attend aÃÂ ...
WTOP
August 18, 2017
In 1954, during the Eisenhower administration, Assistant Secretary of Labor James Ernest Wilkins became the first black official to attend aÃÂ ...
