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Dwight D. Eisenhower
1953 - 1961
locale: Bill Ball's Images of American Political History > 1950 on
Required readings for Week 6 - February 22-26:
1) Greenstein Chapter 4, The Unexpected Eisenhower
2) Renka, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the "Hidden Hand" Presidency
3) Thomas Harte, Martin Medhurst's analysis of Eisenhower's rhetoric
Eisenhower's presidential elections:
1) Dave Leip's Atlas -
1952, 1956
2)
The Hanna Project - Election Year 1952 - Eisenhower vs. Stevenson and
1956 - Eisenhower vs. Stevenson
3) Wikipedia,
United States presidential election, 1952 and
1956
Eisenhower Quiz: February 22 to March 1
Essay 2 on Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy: Friday, March 12 in the Drop Box; exemplary Essay 1 at Student Papers
Professor Renka's Eisenhower Links; Miller Center's biography - President Dwight Eisenhower: A Life in Brief
Timeline: The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower speech sites:
1) American Presidency Project -
Presidential Audio-Video Archive - Dwight D. Eisenhower
2) Eisenhower Library -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speeches
3) Miller Center - scroll down to
Dwight Eisenhower speeches
4) Professor Renka -
Speeches of Dwight Eisenhower
5) D-Day speech -
YouTube - General Dwight D. Eisenhower's D-Day Speech (1:43)
6) Farewell speech of January 17, 1961 -
YouTube - Eisenhower
warns us of the military industrial complex (2:30); longer version of
Farewell Speech:
Eisenhower's Farewell Speech, part 1 (8:59)
Government's Greatest Achievements HTML Timeline covering 83rd through 86th Congresses (1953-1960)
Source Links -
United States History - 1950s
and United
States History Index - 1960s; Richard Jensen's
American Political History On-Line - Truman-Eisenhower