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DC -- Library of Congress -- Exhibit (Agile): Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Essence of Leadership:

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Dwight David Eisenhower was a heralded military commander who strove for peace as a two-term U.S. president. His strong leadership ethos guided him throughout his career and was the critical factor in helping him surmount challenges when his career took dramatic turns. He was a fifty-one-year-old West Point graduate and career army officer, with no combat experience, when the U.S. entered World War II in 1941. Less than a year later, Eisenhower was commander-in-chief of allied forces in North Africa. He went on to lead coalition forces to victory in Europe as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces from 1943 to 1945. In 1952, Eisenhower successfully ran for U.S. president, despite never having waged a political campaign before. Reelected in 1956, he led the nation through nearly a decade of peace and prosperity. “Dwight Eisenhower’s greatness derived not from his office,” Richard Nixon reminded the nation at his former boss’s passing in 1969, “but from his character, . . .” Featured are items from collections in the Manuscript Division and Prints and Photographs Division.
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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LCIKE_220916_004.JPG: Eisenhower as Soldier and Commander, 1915-1943 Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, in 1890. Raised in Abilene, Kansas, in a family that valued resilience and commitment to others above self. Eisenhower brought these values to his West Point Class of 1915 and to his subsequent military career. When the US entered World War I in 1917, Eisenhower remained stateside in command of an Army tank-training center in Gettysburg, PA, and, to his disappointment, missed the war's battlefield experiences. After the US entered World War II in December 1941, Eisenhower assumed command of the US European Theatre of Operations in June 1942. Later that year, he was given command of the first major Allied offensive against the Axis Powers. The invasion of North Africa was his first field command.
2. LCIKE_220916_007.JPG: David van Riesen, Eisenhower house, Abilene Kansas, July 1965.
3. LCIKE_220916_010.JPG: A flirtatious letter from West Point Cadet Eisenhower to Miss Dorothy Mills, March 26, 1915.
4. LCIKE_220916_013.JPG: Eisenhower became an early advocate for the tactical use of tanks, photograph, 1918.
5. LCIKE_220916_016.JPG: Although stateside during the war, Eisenhower gained knowledge of World War I battlefields by writing American Armies and Battlefields in Europe for General John J. Pershing. Eisenhower to Pershing, March 21, post-1927.
6. LCIKE_220916_020.JPG: As commander of the European Theater of Operations, Eisenhower wished the Fifteenth Air Force "Good luck" before its first offensive mission. Eisenhower to Ira Eaker, July 24, 1942.
7. LCIKE_220916_024.JPG: Eisenhower and Eaker, ca 1942.
8. LCIKE_220916_027.JPG: Well-worn leaflet containing a message from Eisenhower to Arabic to the people of North Africa, November 1942.
9. LCIKE_220916_030.JPG: British war correspondent Philip Jordan extolled Eisenhower as the "chief architect of victory" in North Africa. "Genius for Modern War," Tacoma News Tribune, June 21, 1943
10. LCIKE_220916_038.JPG: Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander, 1944-1945 Eisenhower and the Allied forces built on their experiences in North Africa and pressed forward with the invasion of Sicily and the Italian peninsula in the summer and fall of 1943. In December, Eisenhower began planning for a second front in France as the newly appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The successful D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, utilized the lessons learned in each of the previous campaigns. In August 1944, Allied forces liberated Paris and that winter defeated a massive German counteroffensive in the Battle of the Bulge. When the Allies crossed the Rhine in the spring, Germany's fate was sealed. War ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. By then, Eisenhower was world-famous. Talk of an Eisenhower US presidency had already begun.
11. LCIKE_220916_041.JPG: Eisenhower speaking to paratroopers in the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, June 5, 1944.
12. LCIKE_220916_044.JPG: Eisenhower and Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspecting a US glider and paratroop invasion demonstration in England, 1944.
13. LCIKE_220916_047.JPG: Draft of the first "D-Day" communique broadcasted by Eisenhower to the people of Western Europe, June 6, 1944.
14. LCIKE_220916_051.JPG: "Every time I get a new star I get attacked," Eisenhower told George Patton after being promoted to the five-star General of the Army as Germany launched its Battle of the Bulge Offensive. Ike said to me: "Every time I get a new star I get attacked." I said and I pull you out. -- George Patton, December 19, 1944
15. LCIKE_220916_056.JPG: Eisenhower and Patton, undated.
16. LCIKE_220916_059.JPG: Time magazine "Man of the Year," January 1, 1945.
17. LCIKE_220916_064.JPG: Photograph of Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin, W. Averell Harriman, Georgy Zhukov, and other Soviet military leaders standing on Lenin's tomb in Moscow during a parade,August 12, 1945.
18. LCIKE_220916_072.JPG: U.S. President, 1953-1961 Both Republicans and Democrats wooed Eisenhower as a presidential candidate. Eisenhower resisted until June 1952 when he declared his Republican party affiliation and launched his presidential campaign. Calling for small government, a balance budget, and an end to the Korean War, Eisenhower defeated his Democratic opponent Adlai Stevenson resoundingly and would do so again in 1956. As president, Eisenhower sought a strong US military without undermining the national economy. To curb the expense of conventional forces, he relied on nuclear deterrence, covert action, military assistance programs, surveillance technology, and diplomacy, which included two meetings with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. He also created and expanded federal programs to promote a strong economy that he believed was essential to national security. Eisenhower proved far more reticent in tackling racial injustice, including deploying federal resources to battle racial violence, discrimination, and segregation.
19. LCIKE_220916_075.JPG: Eisenhower bemoaned the "turmoil of 'running' for office" in a letter to publisher Henry Luce, September 17, 1952.
20. LCIKE_220916_078.JPG: Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, seated at a campaign event, September 17, 1952.
21. LCIKE_220916_081.JPG: John R. Fischetti. This 1953 cartoon depicts Eisenhower barely running ahead of his supporters' demands.
22. LCIKE_220916_084.JPG: In his "The Chance for Peace" speech following the death of Joseph Stalin, Eisenhower laid out the cost of war: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are gold and are not clothed." April 16, 1953.
23. LCIKE_220916_091.JPG: President Eisenhower invited Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to the United States in September 1959 in a gesture of personal diplomacy. Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Blair House, November 27, 1959.
24. LCIKE_220916_094.JPG: Eisenhower's national security policy, dubbed the "New Look," called for the strategic use of nuclear weapons in massive retaliation against military aggression by the Soviet Union or China (1955).
25. LCIKE_220916_098.JPG: Soviet audiences viewed a seven-screen film at the exhibition by designers Charles and Ray Earnes. Screen captures of two scenes from Glimpses of the USA film, 1959.
26. LCIKE_220916_103.JPG: The NAACP sent this urgent telegram asking Eisenhower to federalize the Arkansas National Guard deployed by Governor Orval Faubus to block the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Fifteen days passed before Eisenhower acted. Channing H. Tobias to Eisenhower, September 9, 1957.
27. LCIKE_220916_109.JPG: The American National Exhibition, a massive undertaking in Cold War cultural diplomacy, took place in Sokolniki Park in Moscow during the summer of 1959. American National Exhibition brochure, in Russian, 1959.
28. LCIKE_220916_112.JPG: 101st Airborne Division troops moving a crowd away from in front of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.
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