Eisenhower

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Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. He was great in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, who he later married in 1916. After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in 1952. And he became president. he died March 28, 1996.




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