Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (1890–1969) was the 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 until 1961. Previously, he'd served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45.
As President, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, launched the Space Race, enlarged the Social Security program, and began the Interstate Highway System.
Dwight Eisenhower had only been President of the United States a few months in 1953 when science fiction writer Pete Lundquist realized that fellow author Mark Gordian had somehow plagerized a story from Lundquist that Lundquist hadn't even completed yet. When Lundquist shared this with editor Jim McGregor, both men contemplated the possibility that Gordian might be a telepath, although McGregor wondered why Gordian would read Lundquist's mind instead of Eisenhower's.[1]
General Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower became the senior United States Army official on the ground in Germany after the end of World War II. He was firmly in favor of a continued American occupation of the country, even after the German Freedom Front began inflicting massive casualities upon Allied troops, and the will of the American people began to erode.[2]
Nonetheless, the possibility that Eisenhower might be the Republican Party's choice to run against President Harry Truman in 1948 was already being floated in 1946.[3]
Eisenhower transferred back home in 1946. He was succeeded by General Lucius Clay.[4]
Dwight Eisenhower was one of the generals to survive the purges of the military ordered by PresidentJoe Steele during his second term. When the United States entered World War II, Eisenhower proved adept at winning, and was uninterested in personal glory. He was able to work well with President Steele.
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